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laird

/laird; Scots leyrd/US // lɛərd; Scots leɪrd //UK // (lɛəd, Scottish lerd) //

莱尔德,赖尔德,莱尔特,莱尔

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Scot.

    • : a landed proprietor.

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Examples

  • When I get on the phone with Georgie, I ask her who told her the story of the cook, the laird, his wife and the Queen Mother.

  • “Sometimes people shoot Marc in a sensational way,” Laird says.

  • One presumes such sentiment gets scant play around the Laird-Smith dinner table.

  • Excerpted from The Cocktail Dress by Laird Borelli-Persson © 2009.

  • Laird Borrelli-Persson is the senior features editor at Style.com, the online home of Vogue and W magazines.

  • A story is told of the familiarity between the laird and his riding horse, which was well-fed and full of spirit.

  • A laird, in the county of Aberdeen, had a well-stocked fowl yard, but could never get any new-laid eggs for breakfast.

  • According to the literal meaning, it would seem that the Laird of Brodie was something less than a gentleman?

  • Mistress Jean she was makin' the elder-flower wine; "And what brings the Laird at sic a like time?"

  • My eagerness to do so had departed when I heard of "the auld laird's" death.