gentry
gentry 英 [ˈdʒentri] 美 [ˈdʒɛntri]
n. 人们（多用贬义）；贵族们；（英）上流社会人士
- The gentry are the powerful members of society. In the United Kingdom, where there are still kings and queens and dukes and duchesses, the gentry are the people who rank just below the nobility.
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- n. 人们（多用贬义）；贵族们；（英）上流社会人士
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1. To put it another way, Huck and Jim and the characters they encountered talked and behaved like common, ordinary American people — not like European gentry.
换言之，不论哈克和吉姆还是他们遇到的人物，其言谈举止与普通美国百姓如出一辙，并不像欧洲贵族。
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2. I found myself in a large room, where people were sitting at lunch or supper around small tables, as is the custom, I am told, at parties in the houses of our nobility and gentry.
我发现自己在一个大的房子里，在哪里人们正围着一张小的桌子吃着午餐或是晚餐，正如我所被告知的风俗一样，在聚会上的都是贵族与上流社会人士。
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3. The point about the upper classes is that when they were not off at war, encouraging their peasants to slaughter their second cousin's peasants, they were landed gentry: farmers.
有关上流阶层的旨要是，他们不外出打仗、不鼓励自己的农民屠杀他们堂兄弟的农民的时候，他们就是有田产的贵族：农场主。
- gentry (n.) c. 1300, "nobility of rank or birth;" mid-14c., "a fashion or custom of the nobility;" late 14c., "nobility of character," from Old French genterie, genterise, variant of gentelise "noble birth, aristocracy; courage, honor; kindness, gentleness," from gentil "high-born, noble, of good family" (see gentle). Meaning "noble persons, the class of well-born and well-bred people" is from 1520s in English, later often in England referring to the upper middle class, persons of means and leisure but below the nobility. Earlier in both senses was gentrice (c. 1200 as "nobility of character," late 14c. as "noble persons"), and gentry in early use also might have been regarded as a singular of that. In Anglo-Irish, gentry was a name for "the fairies" (1880), and gentle could mean "enchanted" (1823).
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