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词汇 example_english_gentleman-of-leisure
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gentleman of leisure

collocation in English

meanings of gentlemanand leisure


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gentleman
noun[C]
uk /ˈdʒen.təl.mən/ us /ˈdʒen.t̬əl.mən/
a polite way of talking to or referring to ...
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leisure
noun[U]
uk /ˈleʒ.ər/ us /ˈliː.ʒɚ/
the time when you are not working or doing ...
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Examples of gentleman of leisure


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The time is now coming when man may well go out to his work for two hours and face the rest of the day as a gentlemanofleisure.
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His retirement may have been prompted by his achievement of financial security and his desire to become a gentlemanofleisure.
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He was invalided out of the army and thereafter became a gentlemanofleisure.
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He embarked on the life of a gentlemanofleisure, made possible by a substantial bequest from one of his fathers friends in 1817.
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He dresses and behaves as a country gentlemanofleisure, idling with a newspaper and living off the labor of others by luring their fowl to his feather-filled shed.
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I'm very much a gentlemanofleisure.
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He is currently a gentlemanofleisure.
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He became a gentlemanofleisure.
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Franklin and his friends were mostly of moderate means, and none alone could have afforded a representative library such as a gentlemanofleisure might expect to assemble.
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Earth science remained an accomplishment for general scholars, intellectuals, the literati, and gentlemen of leisure, and still abutted onto natural and evidential theology, topography and antiquarianism.
She would call them ladies and gentlemen of leisure because that is the class in her day which corresponded to them.
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They would set about doing what ladies and gentlemen of leisure have always done, and that is quietly to improve things in their environment.
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I believe that, instead of the unemployed, we must talk about ladies and gentlemen of leisure.
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