Peerage
['pɪərɪdʒ] or ['pɪrɪdʒ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The rank or dignity of a peer.
(n.) The body of peers; the nobility, collectively.
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例句/造句/用法:
- I suppose you know Sir Pitt's father refused a peerage. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- All idea of a Peerage was out of the question, the Baronet's two seats in Parliament being lost. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The peerage contributes more four-wheeled affliction than has ever been seen in that neighbourhood. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The peerage may have warmer worshippers and faithfuller believers than Mr. Tulkinghorn, after all, if everything were known. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- You have read Shakespeare, and do not know what a peerage is! 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- A baronetcy was spoken of with confidence; a peerage was frequently mentioned. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- In this way the worthy Rectoress consoled herself, and her daughters sighed and sat over the Peerage all night. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- One living beggar had become of more worth than a national peerage of dead lords-- alas the day! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I looked for a peerage for you, Pitt, she said (the brother-in-law again turned red). 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- During these delectable entertainments, Miss Wirt and the chaperon sate by, and conned over the peerage, and talked about the nobility. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The middle-aged man in the pew knows scarcely more of the affairs of the peerage than any crossing-sweeper in Holborn. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The man that wrote the 'English Peerage. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
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