A famous actor in a highly successful play was once cast in the role of an aristocrat who had been imprisoned in the Bastille for twenty years. 在一出极为成功的演出中,一位著名演员有一次被选派扮演一名贵族。这位贵族被关押在巴士底狱已20年了。
Medieval system, where land was grant by a king to his aristocracy, and by the aristocrat to the peasant, on condition that each pay a service( or feudal duty) to his superior. 一种中世纪的制度:国王将土地转让给贵族,贵族再转让给农民。条件是每个人必须向他上级服役或交税。
aristocrat
[ noun ] a member of the aristocracy <noun.person>
Aristocrat \A*ris"to*crat\ (?; 277), n. [F. aristocrate. See {Aristocracy}.] 1. One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble.
2. One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person.
A born aristocrat, bred radical. --Mrs. Browning.
3. One who favors an aristocracy as a form of government, or believes the aristocracy should govern.
His whole family are accused of being aristocrats. --Romilly.
Every time I emerged from their territory into the miasma of the grandstand, I felt like an aristocrat.
If I were an aristocrat, however, I should wish to have fallen into more sympathetic hands.
Chairman Albrecht Matuschka, the feisty aristocrat who founded the group 20 years ago, and the firm's 32 other stockholding partners issued new capital to reduce their combined stake in the private firm to 75%.
This is a one-woman show about Isak Dinesen, the Danish aristocrat and author of "Out of Africa," the memoir turned into a screen vehicle for Meryl Streep not long ago.
And rightly so, perhaps. Such frugal sources as we possess regarding him suggest that he is a wheeler-dealer: not a man of the people, but an aristocrat seeking to upstage rivals by engaging popular support.
Today they could begin to change that with Class Act a drama series starring Joanna Lumley as a wronged aristocrat whose husband disappears, leaving her with a prison sentence.
Later, she was given a crash course in literature and music by an Oxford-educated aristocrat and professional hunter, Denys Finch-Hatton, the lover of the Danish writer Karen Blixen, whose pen name was Isak Dinesen.