gentry中文什么意思

n.
1.贵族们，绅士们；〔英国〕(仅次于贵族的)绅士阶级，上等人士；可以使用纹章的平民〔多为大地主〕。
2.〔谑、蔑〕人们，伙伴。
短语和例子
+更多解释...evil gentrys 劣绅。 the flash gentry 盗贼们，流氓们。 the gentry of the press 新闻界人士。 the light-fingered gentry 扒手们。 the silk-stocking gentry 富人，财主。 these gentry 〔蔑称〕这些家伙。

• alvin gentry:    金特里
• bobbie gentry:    最佳新人
• despotic gentry:    豪绅

例句与用法

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1. The english gentry are next below the nobility .
   英国绅士的地位仅次于贵族。
2. Now the lookalofts would boast that their aspirations has been sanctioned by the gentry of the country .
   如今，卢卡洛夫特家就会夸口说，他们的抱负得到了当地上流社会的认可。
3. She was an old woman who for twenty years had brought the neighboring 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。
4. Culture of gentry and lin yutang ' s literary character
   绅士文化与林语堂的文学品格
5. Do you suppose you can talk to the gentry like that
   “怎么能这样跟老爷们讲话呀？

英文释义

名词

1. the most powerful members of a society
   同义词：aristocracy

百科释义

Gentry (origin Old French genterie, from gentil, "high-born, noble") denotes "well-born and well-bred people" of high social class, especially in the past.Cambridge Advanced Learner's DictionaryOxford English Dictionary Gentry, in its widest connotation, refers to people of good social position connected to landed estates (see manorialism), upper levels of the clergy, and "gentle" families of long descent who never obtained the official right to bear a coat of arms.