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

• The English gentry are next below the royalty.
  英国绅士的地位仅次于贵族。
• Most of them were the nobility and the landed gentry.
  他们大多是贵族和地主乡绅。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• She was beaten by the Polish and Lithuanian gentry.
  它败于波兰和立陶宛士绅。
• On the question of the enlightened gentry.
  关于开明绅士问题。
• The French Riviera was made into a popular holiday resort by the British landed gentry.
  法国的里维埃拉被拥有土地的英国绅士阶层建成了一个颇受人们欢迎的度假胜地。