squire
发音
英 [ˈskwaɪə(r)]
美 [ˈskwaɪər]
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- n.
- <英>地主，乡绅
单词词源
squire 旧时骑士扈从，乡绅，地主，先生
来自中古法语 esquier,乡绅，来自古法语 escuier,持盾者，来自（缩写自）拉丁语 scutarius, 持盾者，来自 scutum,盾，来自 PIE*skei,分开，劈开，词源同 shield,scuttle,escudo.原指骑士 的学徒或实习骑士，兼帮师傅持盾或跑腿，后用于对人的尊称（低于骑士），如乡绅，地主， 同时也用于对男性的尊称。
双语例句
- 1. In canada it is illegal to leave your horse in front of the country squire without hitching it securely to the hitching post .
- 在加拿大，禁止把马牵到乡绅面前，除非将之安全系在拴马柱上。
- 2. The rural poor depended on the charity of squire and parson , and the cavell children were expected , like their parents , to minister to them .
- 乡村穷困者依赖于乡绅和牧师的慈爱宽厚，而卡维尔牧师期望他的孩子们向他学习，照料乡村穷困者。
- 3. In fact the church was constructed in 1842 , and its architect was a woman , sarah losh , born in 1786 , daughter of the local squire .
- 而事实上，是1842年，建筑师还是一名女性萨拉罗希（sarahlosh），1786生，是一位当地乡绅的女儿。
- 4. Other correspondents and visitors to oates during these years were isaac newton and anthony collins , a young squire of the neighborhood , who afterwards made his mark in the intellectual controversies of the time .
- 在奥兹期间还有其他访客和交流人员，如艾萨克牛顿和安东尼科林斯乡绅，这位乡绅和后来在知识争论中也留下了自己的一笔。
- 5. Certainly parts of the narrative read like an 18th-century novel : at 17 , delany was married by her wicked uncle to a 60-year-old drunken squire , who tore her away from her family to live in a rotting cornish castle .
- 当然还有些叙事读起来像18世纪的小说：17岁时，德拉尼被她那缺德叔叔指婚给一个60岁的酒鬼乡绅，她被迫离开自己的家来到一个破败的康沃尔郡城堡生活。