gentry的用法和樣例：
例句
用作名詞 (n.)
- The English gentry is next below the nobility.
英國紳士的地位僅次于貴族。 - The peasants' revolt disturbed the gentry's sweet dreams.
農民在鄉里造反，攪動(dòng)了紳士們的酣夢(mèng)。 - In the Eighteenth Century, the clergy, like the nobility and gentry, often rode to hounds.
在18世紀，神職人員跟貴族和上流社會(huì )人士一樣，常常騎馬打獵。 - In old society, the gentry lived in luxury.
在舊社會(huì )，貴族們生活奢侈。 - She was an old woman who for twenty years had brought the neighbouring gentry into the world.
她是個(gè)上了年紀的女人，二十年來(lái)，鄰近的許許多多上層社會(huì )的紳士們都是由她接生的。
詞匯搭配
經(jīng)典引文
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We haue raised Seianus from obscure, and almost vnknowne Gentry.
出自： Jonson -
'Tis madness to presume too much upon our birth and Gentry.
出自： Alan Ross
gentry的相關(guān)資料：
近反義詞
【近義詞】
- aristocracy 貴族
- upper class 上流社會(huì )
- nobility 貴族
- elite 精英
- ruling class 統治階級
