patriarch
发音
英 [ˈpeɪtriɑ:k]
美 [ˈpeɪtriɑrk]
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- n.
- 家长，族长，元老，（特指）犹太民族的祖先
- 创始人，鼻祖
单词词源
patriarch 家长，族长
patri-,父亲，-arch,管理，统治，词源同matriarch.
双语例句
- 1. The patriarch of the serbian church has backed the protesters .
- 塞尔维亚教会的主教支持抗议者。
- 2. The hearers had never seen a middle-east patriarch respond to such an insult like this .
- 听众们从未听说过一个中东地区的家长会对如此侮辱做出这样的回应。
- 3. Mahmoud , the urbane patriarch , straddles two worlds , embodied in his two wives .
- 马哈茂德是个温文而雅的族长，游走于以他的两个妻子为代表的两个世界上。
- 4. When david thomson was still young , his grandfather , roy , lined him up to someday take over the family business , stating this responsibility in the patriarch 's autobiography .
- 在大卫汤姆森尚且年幼时，其祖父罗伊就已安排他在日后接管家族生意，这个重任在这位家族元老的自传中已经指明。
- 5. Last week he took to the wheel of his soviet-era volga gaz-21 car , giving russia 's patriarch a lift .
- 上周，他驾驶着他前苏联时代的伏尔加嘎斯21汽车送了俄罗斯主教一程。