aristocracy
aristocracy 英 [ˌærɪˈstɒkrəsi] 美 [ˌærɪˈstɑkrəsi]
n. 贵族；贵族统治；上层社会；贵族政治
名词复数:aristocracies
- A person who's "born to rule" belongs to the ruling class, or aristocracy, and is "noble" just by being in the family line — whether they have done anything noble or not. In an aristocracy, a princess who doesn’t visit sick children or clear land mines is still a princess.
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- n. 贵族；贵族统治；上层社会；贵族政治
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1. I call them China's "New aristocracy".
我把他们叫做中国的“新贵族”。
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2. We may today think of the French aristocracy of the ancien régime as a class; but surely it was imagined this way only very late.
今天我们也许会把旧政权时代的法国贵族想成一个阶级；但是他们被想像成一个阶级当然是非常晚近的事。
- aristocracy (n.) 1560s, "government by those who are the best citizens," from Middle French aristocracie (Modern French aristocratie), from Late Latin aristocratia, from Greek aristokratia "government or rule of the best; an aristocracy," from aristos "best of its kind, noblest, bravest, most virtuous" (see aristo-) + abstract noun from kratos "rule, power" (see -cracy).
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