gentry

noun

1. 绅士阶层；上流社会人士
   people belonging to a high social class
   1. the local gentry
      当地的绅士阶层
   2. the landed gentry (= those who own a lot of land)
      乡绅

1. N-PLURAL 上流社会人士；绅士阶层；贵族阶层
   The gentry are people of high social status or high birth.
   1. Most of the country estates were built by the landed gentry during the late 19th century.
      乡间的大部分房子都是那些有土地的乡绅在19世纪后期修建的。

1. Most of the country estates were built by the landed gentry during the late 19th century.
   乡间的大部分房子都是那些有土地的乡绅在19世纪后期修建的。
2. Most of them were the nobility and the landed gentry.
   他们大多是贵族和地主乡绅。
3. The English gentry are next below the royalty.
   英国绅士的地位仅次于贵族。
4. During the following century, the strengthening of the gentry and internal disorders weakened the nation.
   在后来的一个世纪，贵族权利的加强和国内局势的动荡削弱了这个国家。
5. The gentry may be returned officials or the relatives of officials or simply educated landowners.
   士绅可以是退任的官僚，或是官僚的亲属，甚至可以是受过教育的地主。
6. The scholars were an elite; the gentry, a social and economic class.
   文人是精英，而士绅属于社会经济阶层。
7. On the question of the enlightened gentry.
   关于开明绅士问题。
8. For long, I respect Britain, I am the gentry demeanor captive.
   长久以来，我尊敬英国，我还是绅士风度的迷恋者。
9. The local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough.
   当地的贵族和专业人士都对学校持冷漠的态度，虽然学校非常乐意地接收了他们的孩子去读书。
10. Already there was among our nobility and gentry a passion for the amusements of the turf.
    赛马在我们的贵族和中上阶层中已是一种倍受睐的娱乐活动了。
11. He was an extreme right winger from a family of landed gentry.
    他是个出身于拥有土地的中上阶层家庭的极右翼份子。
12. She was an old woman who for twenty years had brought the neighbouring gentry into the world.
    她是个上了年纪的女人，二十年来，邻近的许许多多上层社会的绅士们都是由她接生的。
13. The slogans, "Down with the corrupt officials" and "Down with the local tyrants and evil gentry", were raised among the peasant millions, and great peasant revolutionary struggles were aroused.
    在千百万农民群众中，提出了打倒贪官污吏打倒土豪劣绅的口号，掀起了伟大的农民革命斗争。
14. The expansion of the modern Hunan gentry forces benefits considerably from the establishment of Zeng Guofans Xiang Army.
    近代湖南绅权势力的膨胀得益于曾国藩创办的湘军。
15. They have discredited the local tyrants and evil gentry.
    他们损伤了土豪劣绅的体面。
16. First, the local tyrants, evil gentry and lawless landlords have themselves driven the peasants to this.
    第一，上述那些事，都是土豪劣绅、不法地主自己逼出来的。
17. The French Riviera was made into a popular holiday resort by the British landed gentry.
    法国的里维埃拉被拥有土地的英国绅士阶层建成了一个颇受人们欢迎的度假胜地。
18. The bully in the Song Dynasty includes local tyrants, evil gentry, bandits and rascals.
    宋代的豪横势力主要指土豪劣绅、恶霸地主以及痞流氓和流寇盗匪。
19. They have raised their rough, work-soiled hands and laid them on the gentry.
    他们举起他们那粗黑的手，加在绅士们头上了。
20. And the remaining one-third to the middle and other elements, representing the middle bourgeoisie and the enlightened gentry.
    中间分子及其他分子占三分之一，他们代表中等资产阶级和开明绅士。
21. Only the local tyrants and evil gentry, I think, will call them bad.
    说这些事不好的，我想，只有土豪劣绅们吧！
22. Minor local tyrants and evil gentry are also very often to be found among the rich peasants.
    富农中亦常有较小的土豪、劣绅。
23. She was beaten by the Polish and Lithuanian gentry.
    它败于波兰和立陶宛士绅。
24. They have beaten down the local tyrants and evil gentry, big and small, and kept them underfoot.
    他们打翻了大小土豪劣绅在地上，并且踏上一只脚。
25. This form of punishment more than any other makes the local tyrants and evil gentry tremble.
    这种处罚，最使土豪劣绅颤栗。
26. "Other patriots" refers primarily to the enlightened gentry.
    所说的其他爱国人士，则主要地是指的开明绅士。
27. The gentry who own land ( considered as a class).
    拥有土地的贵族（被认为是一个阶级）。
28. You are the gentry of England who represent the counties.
    你们是代表各郡的英国的中上阶级。
29. Of all the fugitive local tyrants and evil gentry, those who have fled to Shanghai are the safest.
    这些逃跑的土豪劣绅，以逃到上海的为最安全。
30. On the question of the national bourgeoisie and the enlightened gentry
    关于民族资产阶级和开明绅士问题

noun

1. the most powerful members of a society

   Synonym:    aristocracy