英汉词典

aristocracy 基本解释

• n. 贵族；贵族统治；上层社会；贵族政治

aristocracy 词态变化

aristocracy 中文词源

词根arist-, 最好的，来自词根ar-, 连结，匹配，词源同arm. -ist, 最高级后缀。词根cracy, 统治，管理，词源同democracy,词源同hard, 由硬衍生力量，权力。

aristocracy 英文词源

aristocracy

aristocracy: [16] Greek áristos meant ‘best’; hence aristocracy signifies, etymologically, ‘rule by the best’ (the suffix -cracy derives ultimately from Greek krátos ‘strength, power’, a relative of English hard). The term aristokratíā was used by Aristotle and Plato in their political writings, denoting ‘government of a state by those best fitted for the task’, and English writers perpetuated the usage when the word was borrowed from French aristocratie: Thomas Hobbes, for instance, wrote ‘Aristocracy is that, wherein the highest magistrate is chosen out of those that have had the best education’, Art of Rhetoric 1679.

But from the first the term was also used in English for ‘rule by a privileged class’, and by the mid 17th century this had begun to pass into ‘the privileged class’ itself, ‘the nobility’. The derived aristocrat appeared at the end of the 18th century; it was a direct borrowing of French aristocrate, a coinage inspired by the French Revolution.
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aristocracy (n.)

1560s, from Middle French aristocracie (Modern French aristocratie), from Late Latin aristocratia, from Greek aristokratia "government or rule of the best," from aristos "best" (originally "most fitting," from PIE *ar-isto-, superlative form of *ar- "to fit together;" see arm (n.1)) + kratos "rule, power" (see -cracy).

At first in a literal sense of "government by those who are the best citizens;" meaning "rule by a privileged class" (best-born or best-favored by fortune) is from 1570s and became paramount 17c. Hence, the meaning "patrician order" (1650s). In early use contrasted with monarchy; after French and American revolutions, with democracy.

aristocracy 英文释义

1. a privileged class holding hereditary titles

2. the most powerful members of a society

aristocracy 双语例句

1. members of the aristocracy

贵族成员

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2. A century ago the aristocracy were truly lords of the earth.

一个世纪之前，贵族阶层是绝对的统治者。

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3. The highest - ranking members of the Spanish aristocracy are the grandees.

西班牙贵族中爵位最高的成员乃是大公.

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4. Many members of the aristocracy were guillotined in France during the Revolution.

大革命时期法国许多贵族被送上断头台.

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5. The trader and catcher may yet be a - mong our aristocracy.

黑奴贩子和黑奴追捕者们,恐怕还将侧身于我们的达官贵人之列呢.

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aristocracy 实用场景例句

members of the aristocracy

贵族成员

牛津词典

...a member of the aristocracy.

一个贵族成员

柯林斯高阶英语词典

This is from an objective foreshadowed the inevitable collapse of the old aristocracy, extinction trends.

这就从客观上预示了旧贵族阶级必然崩溃 、 灭亡的趋势.

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I think an aristocracy ought to be splendid.

我总觉得,贵族应该是穿得花团锦簇的.

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Liberal education is the necessary endeavor to found an aristocracy within democratic mass society.

它是我们在民主式的群众社会里建立贵族制的一种必要的努力.

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Better be foremost among commoners than the lowest of the aristocracy.

宁为鸡口,无为牛后.

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The early phase of Roman affairs was an aristocracy of a very pronounced type.

早期罗马的事务是属于显著的贵族政治类型.

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He married into the French aristocracy.

他因婚姻关系跻身于法国贵族.

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The Howards and Oriscolls were of this aristocracy.

霍华德和德利斯科尔这两家正是这种名门望族.

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These sons of the aristocracy and the rich lead an easy life , with everything provided.

这些公子王孙衣来伸手,饭来张口.

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He plumed himself on belonging to the aristocracy.

他为自己是个贵族而洋洋自得.

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People said the aristocracy was effete.

人们说贵族阶级已是日薄西山了.

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He had recognized by certain unmistakable signs , that his fair incognita belonged to the aristocracy.

他已从某些蛛丝马迹上看出那个无名美人是贵族社会中的人.

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Norman French was the language of the aristocracy, including the King and his court.

诺曼法语是包括国王以及其朝臣们都讲的贵族语.

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Many members of the aristocracy were guillotined in France during the Revolution.

大革命时期法国许多贵族被送上断头台.

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A member of the Prussian landed aristocracy, a class formerly associated with political reaction and militarism.

容克普鲁士贵族地主中的成员, 先前与政治上的极端保守主义和军国主义联系在一起的阶级.

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What's wrong with the allocation of life prospects in a feudal aristocracy?

在封建贵族统治中,对人的前途的分配错在 哪里 ?

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That expert is an aristocracy of his society.

那个专家是他所在的学会里最权威的人.

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So monarchy dictatorship the stage of history, set off the aristocracy.

因此君主独裁政治登上历史舞台, 贵族阶级走向设落.

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Aristocracy has high social standing.

贵族们有很高的社会地位.

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In general, the poem reflects the culture of the Anatolian landowning aristocracy.

一般来说, 诗歌反映了安纳托利亚地区土地贵族的文化.

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I am a defeated people, the pride of aristocracy degenerated into an instant flail prisoners.

我是一个失败的人, 贵族的骄傲蜕变为一个即时耞囚犯.

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Thanks to conquerors from the North, Romans also associated blondness with aristocracy.

由于后来的征服者来自北方, 罗马人又将金发与贵族统治联系在了一起.

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In time of aristocracy, people's fates are not in the hands of themselves.

贵族统治时代人们的命运并不掌握在自己手中.

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Rather as Romans aspired to Greek virtues, the new Barbarian aristocracy aspired to live like Romans.

正如罗马人为希腊美德而狂热, 新到的蛮族贵族也迫切地希望能像罗马人一样生活.

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But they and the antiquity of the clan aristocracy not the same.

但是他们和上古时代的氏族贵族不一样.

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Once upon a time these equated to the old groupings of aristocracy, merchants and workers.

从前有个时期,这就是旧有的贵族 、 商人和工人3个阶级.

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The highest class would be composed of the intellectual aristocracy.

最高阶层将由高智力的贵族政府组成.

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members of the aristocracy

贵族成员

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