nobility

音标[nәu'biliti] 读音

汉语翻译

n. 贵族, 高尚, 贵族阶级

词型变化:

名词复数:nobilities 

英语解释:

名词 nobility:

  1. a privileged class holding hereditary titles
    同义词:aristocracy
  2. the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct
    同义词:nobleness, magnanimousness, grandeur
  3. the state of being of noble birth
    同义词:noblesse

例句:

  1. The English gentry is next below the nobility.
    英国绅士的地位仅次于贵族。
  2. The nobility usually resist social changes.
    贵族通常反对社会变革。
  3. He is remembered for the nobility of his character.
    他因品质高尚而被人怀念。

详细解释:


no.bil.i.ty

n.(名词)
【复数】 no.bil.i.ties
A class of persons distinguished by high birth or rank and in Great Britain including dukes and duchesses, marquises and marchionesses, earls and countesses, viscounts and viscountesses, and barons and baronesses:
贵族阶级:由高贵的出身或等级区分的一个阶级的人,在英国包括公爵和公爵夫人、侯爵和候爵夫人、伯爵和伯爵夫人、子爵和子爵夫人、男爵和田爵夫人:
例句:
.The old English nobility of office made way for the Norman nobility of faith and landed wealth.(Winston S. Churchill)
.执政的旧英国贵族让位给忠实而且富有的诺尔曼贵族.(温斯顿S.丘吉尔)

Noble rank or status:
高贵:高贵的地位或身份:
例句:
Congress may not grant titles of nobility.
国会可以不授于贵族的头衔

The state or quality of being exalted in character.
崇高:品格崇高的状态或性质

来源:
Middle English nobilite [the quality of being noble]
中古英语 nobilite [高贵的性质]
from Old French
源自 古法语
from Latin bilit3s
源自 拉丁语 bilit3s
from bilis [noble] * see noble
源自 bilis [高贵的] *参见 noble


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