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viceroy

/vahys-roi/US // ˈvaɪs rɔɪ //UK // (ˈvaɪsrɔɪ) //

总督,总督大人,总督先生,督军

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person appointed to rule a country or province as the deputy of the sovereign: the viceroy of India.
    • : a brightly marked American butterfly, Limenitis archippus, closely mimicking the monarch butterfly in coloration.

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Examples

  • The El Chapo strategy was to take out the Mexican police commanders who protected The Viceroy in Juárez, according to Esparza.

  • Each day he was sending serenely confident telegrams to Calcutta and receiving equally reassuring ones from a fatuous Viceroy.

  • The Viceroy sent orders to the military at Pasco to attend to my call, and told me he would send whatever troops I wished with me.

  • When the war with Austria was imminent Napoleon sent him to Italy to command the cavalry of the viceroy's army.

  • It was absurd to imagine that such a prince would be a mere viceroy of France.

  • The viceroy of a great province, he causes the laws to be observed and morality to flourish; disgraced and poor, he teaches them.