Victorian的意思|Victorian的解释-里氏词典

Victorian

a. 英国维多利亚女王时代的, 笃信宗教的, 讲究体面的

n. 维多利亚女王时代的英国人

victorian

[ noun ]

a person who lived during the reign of Victoria

<noun.person>

[ adj ]

of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled

<adj.pert>

Victorian morals

exaggeratedly proper

<adj.all>

my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts

typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria

<adj.all>

Victorian \Vic*to"ri*an\, a.
Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England;
as, the Victorian poets.

{Victorian period}. See {Dionysian period}, under
{Dyonysian}.

nonmodern \nonmodern\ adj.
1. not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time.
Opposite of {modern}. [Narrower terms: {antebellum};
{fogyish, mossgrown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(prenominal),
stodgy old-fashioned}; {medieval, mediaeval, gothic};
{old-time, quaint}; {unmodernized}; {victorian};
{old-fashioned, outmoded}; {old-world}] Also See: {old},
{past}.
[WordNet 1.5]

The novelist invents a certain Lucy Moncrieffe, niece of the British foreign secretary of the time, Lord Aberdeen, but no harm is done and she makes a surprisingly uninhibited Victorian heroine.
A Warner spokesman defends the pose as "extremely coy," adding, "To me, it looks almost Victorian."
He said 10 other inmates remained unaccounted for in the riot that began Sunday at the overcrowded, Victorian prison.
The Times obituary described Sir John in 1868 as 'a once notorious character.' That Victorian moral legacy survives.
But according to Oliver it is an original Victorian feature that does the most to promote a productive working environment. 'The biggest plus point is the room we work in. It's large, open plan and has lots of natural daylight.
Dorothea Montalvo Puente was arrested late Wednesday and was being held by police in Sacramento for investigation of murdering seven tenants found buried in shallow graves outside the Victorian boardinghouse she ran there.
I advise women not to see it. A film which dresses up voyeurism with costumes, clever camera work and nice music and presents it as 'art' on the back of Victorian modesty is a deception.
USING the Victorian Gothic vastness of St Pancras Station to show specially commissioned work by a selection of contemporary artists is an exciting idea, which has been brought to fruition in an exhibition organised by Camden Arts Centre.
Originally the piece trod a skilful path over an abyss of Victorian prettiness and excessive Mendelssohnian charm.
There have been no fresh supplies in the Victorian jail since the mutiny began on April 1.
Butler has an honours degree in English and Art. With a guaranteed company income of Pounds 3,000 for the first 12 months the couple formed a legal partnership and took a small Victorian shop unit in a narrow side street behind the harbour in St Ives.
Experts, such as Joe Kerwin of the New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx, a 240-acre complex with a beautiful turn-of-the-century Victorian conservatory, say the boom partially reflects an ecology-conscious nation.
DANCE New York Joffrey Ballet The late Robert Joffrey's version of "The Nutcracker" is set in Victorian America, with designs based on prints, engravings, Christmas cards and toys of the period.
They can read about Victorian Sugarplum Trees, or Santa Lucia's Day, or the entire Christmas holiday cycle culminating in Twelfth Night celebrations.
Fallen autumn leaves have laid a picturesque golden carpet on the many acres of greensward that set off Harrogate's fine Victorian and Edwardian buildings.
You can mix periods and styles as long as the room maintains its casual quality." For example, he says it's easily possible to put together a room that includes Shaker reproductions, primitive painted pieces and Victorian wicker.
In a nice touch of Victorian prudery, the idol wears a tiny loincloth added long ago by a cautious curator.
Yet his values and emotions remained largely fixed in the era of his late Victorian boyhood. Perhaps the key to Moores' money-making genius was his fixity of purpose. Once, years ago, he asked an assistant buyer to do something.
And the Jack the Ripper pub, a tired old Victorian frequented by construction workers, hailed its namesake's centenary with $9 commemorative T-shirts and a blood red brew called the Ripper Tipple.
The travel-advice chapter offers a Victorian version of the hollow-tie trick for adventurers heading into an "imperfectly civilized land": Slit your upper arm and put some jewels inside in a small silver case embedded near the vaccination mark.
Hotelier Larry Lawrence lavishly decorated the venerable Victorian hotel for 750 guests who came from across the country for a sold-out weekend at $2,500 apiece.
"My kind of tennis is to do the unexpected," Tarangioli said during a chat at his Victorian house on a tree-shaded hillside in this New York suburb. "At this age, you're not the powerful hitter you were, but you play a very intelligent game.
The focus of the yearlong series of celebrations and tourism promotion efforts is the historic district of Guthrie, where 40 blocks of Victorian buildings recall the years Guthrie served as territorial and state capital.
Mrs. Dukakis, freed of her neck brace a day earlier, appeared well-rested and without pain at the reception held in the historic Victorian mansion.
Old Victorian buildings have been torn down and rehabbed," says the sheriff and former ski bum.
"It's as if when the commercials come on, (the viewer) is a Victorian," says Roy Grace, chairman of New York ad agency Grace & Rothschild.
Michael Paske grows it on his Grantham, Lincolnshire, farm following roughly the same methods used by Victorian gardeners.
The city council has promoted retailing, supporting development of the Lanes shopping precinct in 1985 and the refurbishment of the Victorian covered market in 1991.
Chelsea building society, with 50 branches, set up its headquarters 20 years ago at Thirlestaine Hall, a Victorian mansion in Cheltenham, and extended it in 1987.
"The Victorian era didn't really have sex crimes until Jack the Ripper," he says.

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