aristocratic是英語形容詞,音標為英[ˌærɪstəˈkrætɪk],意為“貴族的,有貴族特徵的”,源自17世紀初期法語aristocratique及希臘語aristokratikos(意為“最優秀者統治的”)。該詞既可描述社會階層屬性(如貴族家庭、血統),也可指代高貴傲慢的行為舉止。
其套用涵蓋歷史研究、文學描述等領域,如“aristocratic code of honor”(貴族式榮譽準則)等短語常見於學術文獻。英語學術界對aristocratic的界定存在經濟、權勢和法定標準爭議,涉及土地壟斷、議會控制等特徵。關聯辭彙包括aristocrat(貴族)、aristocracy(貴族統治)等。
詞義歷經演變:1600年起表示“貴族政治的”,1845年擴展出“優雅的”含義。歷史案例顯示該詞在18世紀英國用於描述擁有立法權、狩獵權等特權的統治階層。現代研究通過貴族後代壽命數據分析社會特權影響。
基本介紹
- 外文名:aristocratic
- 詞性:形容詞
- 發音:[əˌrɪstəˈkrætɪk]
單詞釋義
短語搭配
雙語例句
- Nabokov was the scion of an aristocratic family. 納博科夫曾是一位貴族家庭的小少爺。
- The most successful monarchies strive to abandon or hide their old aristocratic ways. 最成功的君主國努力摒棄或隱藏他們舊式貴族作風。
- Their aristocratic outfit, aristocracy of birth, which is legitimized by their heroic behavior on the battlefield. 他們的貴族的身份和貴族出身,由於他們在戰場上的英雄行為而被認可。
- It is in the west that a peculiarly American political culture began, among colonists who were suspicious of authority and intensely anti-aristocratic. 正是在西方,在那些懷疑權威和強烈反貴族的殖民者中開始了一種獨特的美國政治文化。
- Over aristocratic and caste systems. 超越了貴族與種姓制度。
- When of aristocratic lineage flowing again. 當貴族的血統再次流淌。
- She had an impeccable aristocratic pedigree. 她有純正的貴族血統。
- His aristocratic mien and smart clothes singled him out. 他的貴族風度和時髦的服裝使人對他男眼相看。
- This country has never had a genuine aristocracy or an aristocratic tradition. 這個國家從來沒有出現真正的貴族和貴族傳統。
- Varnished, aristocratic and sumptuous colours with more acid and trifle tones. 塗漆,貴族和華麗的色彩帶有酸性和戲耍的色調。
- Aristocratic languor, critics thought, made him too diffident sometimes on the field. 高貴的慵懶,批評家的思想,使他有時候在球場上與眾不同。
- His style was aristocratic, elegant and poetic - completely different from Falla and albeniz. 他的曲風充滿貴族氣息,優雅而又詩情畫意,全然不同於法拉和阿爾貝尼茲。
- Liechtenstein is the last refuge of that language's traditional forms of aristocratic address. 列支敦斯登對德語傳統中如何稱呼貴族提供了最後的避護所。
- Aristocratic families were loth to stump up dowries for more than one daughter. The rest were walled away. 貴族家庭不願意為超過一個女兒辦嫁妝,那其餘的女兒就被丟棄在修道院。
- Are not these aristocratic goals of honor and glory? Precisely what Machiavelli seems to be advocating? 這些追求名譽榮耀的高尚目標難道不正是,馬基雅維利所擁護的嗎?
- In the film Knightley plays an aristocratic woman that is trapped in a marriage to a man who is in love with his mistress. 凱拉·奈特莉在此片中飾演了一個身陷錯敗婚姻的貴婦,該貴婦的丈夫背著她與另一個女人產生了感情。
- A little girl from the East Side was invited to a garden party given by a very aristocratic lady to a group of little East-Siders. 一個住在城東貧民區的小女孩獲得邀請,參加一位貴婦人為城東貧民區的孩子們舉行的花園晚會。
- Although the Nehru-Gandhi family was not, as Ms Singh states several times, aristocratic, they and their circle could certainly be snooty. 儘管,正如辛格女士多次聲明的那樣,尼赫魯-甘地家族不是貴族,但他們以及他們的社交圈也必然是媚上傲下的。
- There's one more message I've heard from cities: in London you can still (barely) hear the message that one should be more aristocratic. 從很多城市裡我還聽到另外一個訊息:在倫敦你仍能依稀聽見“你得象個貴族”這樣的訊息。
- But it's clear that this first known Roman Asian wasn't some aristocratic diplomat. He was just a poor worker, buried with a single pot. 但顯然這位剛剛顯露真跡的羅馬亞洲人不是什麼達官顯貴或外交使節的後代,他只是個貧窮的幹活者,和他一起埋葬的只是一個罐子而已。
- And after he graduated, he entered the service of an aristocratic family, the Cavandish family, where he became a private tutor to their son. 他畢業後,開始為一個貴族世家工作,也就是卡文迪許家族,在那裡他成為了他們兒子的私人教師。
- It was an aristocratic face, with a shock of white hair, and it surmounted-according to the season-a chunky-knit sweater or a white Byronic shirt. 那是一張充滿貴族氣息的臉龐,配著一頭銀髮。根據時節,那個人或套著一件厚實的針織毛衣,或穿著一件白色的拜倫風格襯衫。
- She was born in Ireland about 1709 to a mother with aristocratic connections and a father who made a reputation as a fashionable Dublin physician. 大約1709年,麗蒂茜婭生於愛爾蘭,母親出身貴族,父親是都柏林的名醫。

