patriarch
patriarch 英 [ˈpeɪtriɑ:k] 美 [ˈpeɪtriɑrk]
n. 家长；族长；元老；创始人
名词复数:patriarchs
- A patriarch is a male leader. Your father might be the patriarch of your family, but your kid brother could be the patriarch of his club house.
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- n. 家长；族长；元老；创始人
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1. In this group of successful investors that I want to consider， there has been a common intellectual patriarch， Ben Graham.
我所要考虑的这一群成功投资者，共有一位共同的智力族长——本杰明·格雷厄姆。
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2. It was Mr Moss, now based in Thailand, who advised the Bloch family to sell the collection after its patriarch died a year ago.
还是莫斯（现在其公司总部搬到了泰国）建议布洛克家族卖掉那些收藏，其家长已于一年前死亡。
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3. The Maronites are the largest of the Christian groups. They have had a long and continuous association with the Catholic Church, but have their own patriarch, liturgy, and customs.
马龙派是当地最大的基督教团体，他们和天主教教堂有着深厚悠久的渊源，但拥有其自己的家长，礼拜仪式和习俗。
- patriarch (n.) late 12c., from Old French patriarche "one of the Old Testament fathers" (11c.) and directly from Late Latin patriarcha (Tertullian), from Greek patriarkhes "chief or head of a family," from patria "family, clan," from pater "father" (see father (n.)) + arkhein "to rule" (see archon). Also used as an honorific title of certain bishops in the early Church, notably those of Antioch, Alexandria, and Rome.
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