英语词汇“example_english_pillar-of-society”的音标、意思、用法及中文翻译-反思网

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That day, when he returned from his well-paid, responsible position—a pillarofsociety, if one likes—his wife had packed her suitcase ready to go.
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He had been chairman of the federation of his branch of industry in his city, a pillarofsociety.
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I have a constituent who can only be described as a respectable pillarofsociety.
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There must be some principle that underlies the criminal law; otherwise an essential pillarofsociety loses credibility in the eyes of those for whose protection it is erected.
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Women are the pillars of society, particularly of the societies with which we are concerned here.
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I merely say it to illustrate the point that these people are not, in fact, patriotic pillars of society.
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Another delegate to the conference said that many respected pillars of society were nothing more than tax criminals.
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Small shopkeepers are one of the pillars of society which should be kept serviced.
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We not only do not frown on them, we extol them and regard them as pillars of society.
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The mill owners gradually regained their financial standing and their place as pillars of society.
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Of course health and education are the two great pillars of society, and we don't think that investments in education is a drain on society.
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The membership has been described as the pillars of society and includes the very flower and pick of the vigor, manhood and rising youth of the vicinity.
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The new conditions were criticised as harmful to children and to what these parties regarded as the main pillarofsociety, the family.
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