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 aristocracy [,æri'stɒkrәsi]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 贵族, 上层社会, 知识界杰出分子

[法] 贵族政治, 贵族统治


  1. 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。
  2. Aristocracy has high social standing.
    贵族们有很高的社会地位。
  3. 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。


aristocracy
[ noun ]
  1. a privileged class holding hereditary titles

  2. <noun.group>
  3. the most powerful members of a society

  4. <noun.group>


Aristocracy \Ar`is*toc"ra*cy\, n.; pl. {Aristocracies}. [Gr. ?;
? best + ? to be strong, to rule, ? strength; ? is perh. from
the same root as E. arm, and orig. meant fitting: cf. F.
aristocratie. See {Arm}, and {Create}, which is related to
Gr. ?.]
1. Government by the best citizens.

2. A ruling body composed of the best citizens. [Obs.]

In the Senate
Right not our quest in this, I will protest them
To all the world, no aristocracy. --B. Jonson.

3. A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested
in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged
order; an oligarchy.

The aristocracy of Venice hath admitted so many
abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that
the period of its duration seems approach. --Swift.

4. The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class
or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are
regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in
rank, fortune, or intellect.

  1. This "aristocracy" of senior managers thought that "whatever they'd been doing throughout the 1970s would work through the year 2000," the official adds.
  2. And despite the money brought by legions of tourists, who come to worship the wax statue of Jimmie Rodgers or peek over the fence at Webb Pierce's guitar-shaped pool, much of Nashville has regarded its rhinestone aristocracy with a bilious eye.
  3. "I come from seven generations of the elite, the aristocracy.
  4. "They can be former Communists, but not big game _ not the aristocracy of the party," he said.
  5. President Francesco Cossiga, members of Spanish royalty and Italian aristocracy, top government officials, diplomats and red and purple-robed cardinals and prelates attended the ceremony.
  6. The family was descended from Huguenots, belonged to the white aristocracy and boasted a Confederate general among its forebears.
  7. Among the various blocks of protected interests in Brazil none is larger or more powerful than the bureaucratic aristocracy.
  8. Godoy was thought to balance the ticket with Mrs. Chamorro, whose membership in the Nicaraguan aristocracy pleases conservatives.
  9. The Soviets are making tracks to the tourist industry by building a replica of a luxurious, turn-of-the-century train that once ferried the nation's now-reviled aristocracy.
  10. The landed aristocracy disdained commerce and peasants stuck to their farms, so much of the small business, trade and industry were left to Jews.
  11. "I don't like the notion of aristocracy or even monarchy.
  12. "Ibo-Jewry" was first proposed by a segment of the British aristocracy to explain the plight of the Ibos during the Nigerian-Biafran civil war.
  13. There is no real aristocracy, an ineffective church, the army is a poor imitation of what it once was.
  14. It was the twilight of the aristocracy and the dawn of the peasant - when the rumba met the revolutionary and more than just the music died.
  15. By concentrating on protecting their social privileges and resisting efforts by the brightest members of minority groups to join the upper class, he contends, the WASP aristocracy has abdicated its moral and political leadership responsibility.
  16. The villa where Isabelle of Hanover died is a favorite meeting place of European aristocracy.
  17. These lavish entertainments amused the English aristocracy with their musical restagings of traditional myths and allegories.
  18. The name was de Chailly until World War II, when the conductor's father dropped "de" which indicated French aristocracy.
  19. At least, if banks were required to do that they would have nothing to lend, corporations and households would have a hard time borrowing for future activities; the economy would probably retreat to the precapitalist stasis of a landed aristocracy.
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