patrician

英 [pəˈtrɪʃn]

美 [pəˈtrɪʃn]

adj.  贵族的; 上流社会的
n.  贵族; 有教养的人; 罗马帝国的地方官; 中世纪意大利的显贵

复数：patricians　

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.20883 / COCA.20209

牛津词典

adj.

• 贵族的；上流社会的
  connected with or typical of the highest social class

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 贵族；豪门子弟
  Apatricianis a person who comes from a family of high social rank.
  1. ...the patrician banker Sir Charles Villiers.
     出身名门的银行家查尔斯·维利尔斯爵士
• ADJ-GRADED 贵族的；有贵族气派的
  If you describe someone aspatrician, you mean that they behave in a sophisticated way, and look as though they are from a high social rank.
  1. He was a lean, patrician gent in his early sixties.
     他60岁出头，是位有着贵族气派的清瘦绅士。
  2. ...her crisp, patrician voice.
     她清脆的贵族口音

英英释义

noun

• a member of the aristocracy
  Synonym:aristocratblue blood
• a person of refined upbringing and manners

adj

• belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
  1. an aristocratic family
  2. aristocratic Bostonians
  3. aristocratic government
  4. a blue family
  5. blue blood
  6. the blue-blooded aristocracy
  7. of gentle blood
  8. patrician landholders of the American South
  9. aristocratic bearing
  10. aristocratic features
  11. patrician tastes
  Synonym:aristocraticaristocraticalblueblue-bloodedgentle
• befitting a person of noble origin
  1. a patrician nose

双语例句

• You're right, I'm a spoiled patrician.
  你说得对，我是个被宠坏的贵族。
• Though he had patrician self-confidence, there was no snobbery in Roosevelt.
  罗斯福有着出身贵族的自信满满，但却毫无趋炎附势的丑恶嘴脸。
• Mr Chandler's patrician friends in Delaware included the mighty du Pont family.
  他在特拉华的贵族朋友包括强大的杜邦家族。
• The rank, position, or term of officeof a patrician.
  贵族的等级、地位或任期。
• He was born into a patrician New England family and privately educated.
  他出生于一个新英格兰贵族家庭，接受了私人教育。
• He was reticent, patrician, bookish, urbane.
  他沉默含蓄，雍容华贵，书生气十足，而又温文有礼。
• Caesar has put an end to patrician tyranny.
  恺撒已经结束了贵族们的统治。
• Its patrician dignity was a picturesque sham.
  它的贵族的尊严只是一套华丽的伪装。
• In the16th century, Ben Johnson wrote," Blueness doth express trueness," because blue also means patrician.
  十六世纪时，本·琼生写道：“蓝色确实表示真实”，因为蓝色还意味着高贵的。
• He speaks English with a marked patrician accent.
  他说英语带有一种明显的贵族口音。