patricians

英 [pəˈtrɪʃənz]

美 [pəˈtrɪʃənz]

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
patrician的复数

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

双语例句

• From Fronto I learned to observe what envy, and duplicity, and hypocrisy are in a tyrant, and that generally those among us who are called Patricians are rather deficient in paternal affection.
  从弗朗特，我学会了观察仅仅在一个暴君那里存在的嫉妒、伪善和口是心蜚非，知道我们中间那些被称为上流人的一般是相当缺乏仁慈之情的。
• There was a conflict between plebs and patricians in ancient Rome in494BC.
  在公元前494年，罗马发生了一次平民反对贵族的斗争。
• With the struggle of plebs for the equal political rights with the patricians in the early Republic, the institutions gradually developed and the official position was gradually open to the plebs.
  伴随着共和早期平民争取与贵族平等的政治权利的斗争，其形制逐步完善，官职人选也逐步向平民开放。
• The Roman patricians were clever enough to beat every such potential tyrant by giving in to a certain extent to the plebeians.
  罗马贵族非常狡猾，他们对平民作出一定程度的让步以打击每一个这样的潜在的霸主。