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knight-errantry

/nahyt-er-uhn-tree/US // ˈnaɪtˈɛr ən tri //

侠客行,骑士精神,骑士团,侠客精神

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural knight-er·rant·ries.

    • : the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
    • : quixotic conduct or action.

Examples

  • So she lies to the knight, telling him Madalena is sorry and wants him back.

  • The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.

  • Knight and Farrell were both fired from the New Orleans Police Department before they gravitated to Duke.

  • Scalise was a state representative old enough to remember the notoriety of Farrell and Knight from years before.

  • “Poor Steve Scalise is getting a bad rap,” Knight, a long-time aide to former KKK leader David Duke, told The Daily Beast.

  • The worthy knight not being now alive to veto the project, a figure of him has been placed opposite the College in Edmund Street.

  • That brave knight was my great, great grandfather, and he has often sat in this very chair in which I am sitting now.

  • The handsome person and gallant bearing of the youthful knight excited general sympathy and regret.

  • But to a Knight of Industry, as he knew the Count to be, a certain thousand pounds would be a great temptation.

  • According to Froissart, he was 'esteemed the bravest and most enterprising knight in the two kingdoms.'