patrician
patrician 英 [pəˈtrɪʃn] 美 [pəˈtrɪʃən]
adj. 贵族的；显贵的 n. 贵族；有教养的人
名词复数:patricians
- That refined gentleman over there with the excellent manners, the elegant suit, and the beautiful home on Park Avenue? He’s a patrician, a member of the upper classes.
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- adj. 贵族的；显贵的
- n. 贵族；有教养的人
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1. But if a bunch of academics and government advisers decided what they meant by happiness and how to have more of it, they would be deemed patrician – and rightly so.
但如果幸福的定义以及如何拥有幸福是由一群学者和政府顾问说了算，那么他们只能被视作高高在上的贵族——而且理所当然，他们就是如此。
- patrician (n.) early 15c., "member of the ancient Roman noble order," from Middle French patricien, from Latin patricius "of the rank of the nobles, of the senators; of fatherly dignity," from patres conscripti "Roman senators," literally "fathers," plural of pater "father" (see father (n.)). Contrasted, in ancient Rome, with plebeius. Applied to noble citizens and higher orders of free folk in medieval Italian and German cities (sense attested in English from 1610s); hence "nobleman, aristocrat" in a modern sense (1630s). As an adjective, attested from 1610s, from the noun.
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