| 词汇 | samurai |
| 释义 | samurai noun[ C ] uk /ˈsæm.u.raɪ/ us /ˈsæm.ə.raɪ/pluralsamurai or samurais a member of a military class of high social rank from the 11th to the 19th century in Japan: （日本11至19世纪的）武士 Samurai warriors武士 Soldiers in the past brave cavalryman centurion conquistador decurion knight errant knightly legion musketeer ninja paladin Saracen the Allies warrior Examples of samuraisamurai The 'deviants' of that time were mainly people in the service of the samurai, joined by masterless samurai. Since the early nineteenth century the borderlines between estates, even between samurai and merchants, became permeable. From the late sixteenth century until the early seventeenth century, samurai were separated from farming communities throughout the country. Because of the long peace most of the samurai became administrators rather than actually serving as fighters. Among the samurai it was always the required form. This ideology, however, did not always protect merchants from samurai and authorities. If an estimated 500,000 samurai is added, the total population comes to about one million. In the pre-modern period statistics are especially unreliable as official population records did not count the samurai. Many served as employment agents who provided samurai employers with labourers, and they had many followers under them. While clearly the injured party, the merchants had little recourse against the ruling samurai class. Although the samurai class was dysfunctional by their fathers' time, they were still strongly attached to the moral training and ideology nurtured for centuries in the samurai tradition. In order to serve the needs of this large samurai population, for house construction and regular household consumption, merchants and artisans also congregated in the city in large numbers. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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