patrician

英 [pəˈtrɪʃn]

美 [pəˈtrɪʃn]

adj.  贵族的; 上流社会的
n.  贵族; 有教养的人; 罗马帝国的地方官; 中世纪意大利的显贵

复数：patricians　

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.20883 / COCA.20209

牛津词典

adj.

• 贵族的；上流社会的
  connected with or typical of the highest social class

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 贵族；豪门子弟
  Apatricianis a person who comes from a family of high social rank.
  1. ...the patrician banker Sir Charles Villiers.
     出身名门的银行家查尔斯·维利尔斯爵士
• ADJ-GRADED 贵族的；有贵族气派的
  If you describe someone aspatrician, you mean that they behave in a sophisticated way, and look as though they are from a high social rank.
  1. He was a lean, patrician gent in his early sixties.
     他60岁出头，是位有着贵族气派的清瘦绅士。
  2. ...her crisp, patrician voice.
     她清脆的贵族口音

英英释义

noun

• a member of the aristocracy
  Synonym:aristocratblue blood
• a person of refined upbringing and manners

adj

• belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
  1. an aristocratic family
  2. aristocratic Bostonians
  3. aristocratic government
  4. a blue family
  5. blue blood
  6. the blue-blooded aristocracy
  7. of gentle blood
  8. patrician landholders of the American South
  9. aristocratic bearing
  10. aristocratic features
  11. patrician tastes
  Synonym:aristocraticaristocraticalblueblue-bloodedgentle
• befitting a person of noble origin
  1. a patrician nose

双语例句

• Caesar has put an end to patrician tyranny.
  恺撒已经结束了贵族们的统治。
• The rank, position, or term of officeof a patrician.
  贵族的等级、地位或任期。
• His long patrician face, which might have been handsome at one point, was unfortunately barred from a scar, which lifted slightly the left corner of his upper lip.
  那张高贵的长脸，本来应该很英俊的，很不幸被左上唇角向上挑起的一块疤痕破坏了。
• You're right, I'm a spoiled patrician.
  你说得对，我是个被宠坏的贵族。
• He was a lean, patrician gent in his early sixties.
  他60岁出头，是位有着贵族气派的清瘦绅士。
• In the16th century, Ben Johnson wrote," Blueness doth express trueness," because blue also means patrician.
  十六世纪时，本·琼生写道：“蓝色确实表示真实”，因为蓝色还意味着高贵的。
• As if to give its own patrician signal of approval, the National Gallery is now holding its first major exhibition of photography, Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present.
  好像是为了给自己的贵族标志一个批准，国家美术馆举办了第一次大型摄影展，被艺术所牵引：摄影的过去与现在。
• Its patrician dignity was a picturesque sham.
  它的贵族的尊严只是一套华丽的伪装。
• He was born into a patrician New England family and privately educated.
  他出生于一个新英格兰贵族家庭，接受了私人教育。
• China, a country once renowned for its proletarian pride, is experiencing a surge in that most patrician of sports: golf.
  中国一度以其无产阶级自豪感而闻名，而现在一项非常贵族化的运动却在这个国度异军突起，这就是高尔夫。