gentry

英 [ˈdʒentri]

美 [ˈdʒentri]

n.  绅士阶层; 上流社会人士

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牛津词典

noun

• 绅士阶层；上流社会人士
  people belonging to a high social class
  1. the local gentry
     当地的绅士阶层
  2. the landed gentry (= those who own a lot of land)
     乡绅

柯林斯词典

• N-PLURAL 上流社会人士；绅士阶层；贵族阶层
  Thegentryare people of high social status or high birth.
  1. Most of the country estates were built by the landed gentry during the late 19th century.
     乡间的大部分房子都是那些有土地的乡绅在19世纪后期修建的。

英英释义

noun

• the most powerful members of a society
  Synonym:aristocracy

双语例句

• He was an extreme right winger from a family of landed gentry.
  他是个出身于拥有土地的中上阶层家庭的极右翼份子。
• Only the local tyrants and evil gentry, I think, will call them bad.
  说这些事不好的，我想，只有土豪劣绅们吧！
• They have beaten down the local tyrants and evil gentry, big and small, and kept them underfoot.
  他们打翻了大小土豪劣绅在地上，并且踏上一只脚。
• And the remaining one-third to the middle and other elements, representing the middle bourgeoisie and the enlightened gentry.
  中间分子及其他分子占三分之一，他们代表中等资产阶级和开明绅士。
• During the following century, the strengthening of the gentry and internal disorders weakened the nation.
  在后来的一个世纪，贵族权利的加强和国内局势的动荡削弱了这个国家。
• First, the local tyrants, evil gentry and lawless landlords have themselves driven the peasants to this.
  第一，上述那些事，都是土豪劣绅、不法地主自己逼出来的。
• The scholars were an elite; the gentry, a social and economic class.
  文人是精英，而士绅属于社会经济阶层。
• She was an old woman who for twenty years had brought the neighbouring gentry into the world.
  她是个上了年纪的女人，二十年来，邻近的许许多多上层社会的绅士们都是由她接生的。
• Of all the fugitive local tyrants and evil gentry, those who have fled to Shanghai are the safest.
  这些逃跑的土豪劣绅，以逃到上海的为最安全。
• This form of punishment more than any other makes the local tyrants and evil gentry tremble.
  这种处罚，最使土豪劣绅颤栗。