patrician

adj.

1. 贵族的；上流社会的
   connected with or typical of the highest social class

1. N-COUNT 贵族；豪门子弟
   A patrician is a person who comes from a family of high social rank.
   1. ...the patrician banker Sir Charles Villiers.
      出身名门的银行家查尔斯·维利尔斯爵士
2. ADJ-GRADED 贵族的；有贵族气派的
   If you describe someone as patrician, you mean that they behave in a sophisticated way, and look as though they are from a high social rank.
   1. He was a lean, patrician gent in his early sixties.
      他60岁出头，是位有着贵族气派的清瘦绅士。
   2. ...her crisp, patrician voice.
      她清脆的贵族口音

1. He was a lean, patrician gent in his early sixties.
   他60岁出头，是位有着贵族气派的清瘦绅士。
2. As if to give its own patrician signal of approval, the National Gallery is now holding its first major exhibition of photography, Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present.
   好像是为了给自己的贵族标志一个批准，国家美术馆举办了第一次大型摄影展，被艺术所牵引：摄影的过去与现在。
3. China, a country once renowned for its proletarian pride, is experiencing a surge in that most patrician of sports: golf.
   中国一度以其无产阶级自豪感而闻名，而现在一项非常贵族化的运动却在这个国度异军突起，这就是高尔夫。
4. His long patrician face, which might have been handsome at one point, was unfortunately barred from a scar, which lifted slightly the left corner of his upper lip.
   那张高贵的长脸，本来应该很英俊的，很不幸被左上唇角向上挑起的一块疤痕破坏了。
5. In the16th century, Ben Johnson wrote," Blueness doth express trueness," because blue also means patrician.
   十六世纪时，本·琼生写道：“蓝色确实表示真实”，因为蓝色还意味着高贵的。
6. Caesar has put an end to patrician tyranny.
   恺撒已经结束了贵族们的统治。
7. He was reticent, patrician, bookish, urbane.
   他沉默含蓄，雍容华贵，书生气十足，而又温文有礼。
8. He speaks English with a marked patrician accent.
   他说英语带有一种明显的贵族口音。
9. Its patrician dignity was a picturesque sham.
   它的贵族的尊严只是一套华丽的伪装。
10. He was born into a patrician New England family and privately educated.
    他出生于一个新英格兰贵族家庭，接受了私人教育。
11. Though he had patrician self-confidence, there was no snobbery in Roosevelt.
    罗斯福有着出身贵族的自信满满，但却毫无趋炎附势的丑恶嘴脸。
12. After middle period of Qing Dynasty, the proprietorship of soil was changed from patrician to fresh landholder, and management method was changed from slavery to tenancy.
    清朝中叶以后出现旗地向民地转化的趋势，经营方式则由传统的农奴制向租佃制转变。
13. The rank, position, or term of officeof a patrician.
    贵族的等级、地位或任期。
14. Mr Chandler's patrician friends in Delaware included the mighty du Pont family.
    他在特拉华的贵族朋友包括强大的杜邦家族。
15. You're right, I'm a spoiled patrician.
    你说得对，我是个被宠坏的贵族。

noun

1. a member of the aristocracy

   Synonym:    aristocratblue blood

2. a person of refined upbringing and manners

adj

1. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
   1. an aristocratic family
   2. aristocratic Bostonians
   3. aristocratic government
   4. a blue family
   5. blue blood
   6. the blue-blooded aristocracy
   7. of gentle blood
   8. patrician landholders of the American South
   9. aristocratic bearing
   10. aristocratic features
   11. patrician tastes

   Synonym:    aristocraticaristocraticalblueblue-bloodedgentle

2. befitting a person of noble origin
   1. a patrician nose