gentries

基本解释

• n.绅士；名流；贵族们

同根派生

英汉例句

用作名词 (n.)

• The English gentry is next below the nobility.
  英国绅士的地位仅次于贵族。
• The peasants' revolt disturbed the gentry's sweet dreams.
  农民在乡里造反，搅动了绅士们的酣梦。
• In the Eighteenth Century, the clergy, like the nobility and gentry, often rode to hounds.
  在18世纪，神职人员跟贵族和上流社会人士一样，常常骑马打猎。
• In old society, the gentry lived in luxury.
  在旧社会，贵族们生活奢侈。
• 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。