| 词汇 | burgher |
| 释义 | burgher noun[ C ] old-fashioned or humorousuk /ˈbɜː.ɡər/ us /ˈbɝː.ɡɚ/ a person who lives in a city市民 Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general) aerotropolis anti-city anti-urban backwater boom town Brummie Cantabrigian central city civic conurbation garden city metropolitan elite multi-city municipal native place non-municipal open city small-town smoke urbanite A portly burgher was he, friendly of tongue and free of purse. At these meetings also the burghers were unanimous in their decision not to give up their independence. Its bell summoned the burghers to council or arms. Should the burghers be called out to action, they must supply themselves with provisions to last fourteen days. Wounded soldiers and burghers were lifted out of the grass and carried tenderly to the ambulance waggons. Examples of burgherburgher Notions of the liberty of guilds, burghers and even migrants remained an obstacle. The councils followed on the other hand a multilayered, participatory model in their attempt to involve all resident burghers in government. The burghers had grown strong in feudal society and wanted a suitable position among the estates. The use of physical force against burghers was perceived as illegitimate violence. They were kept by burghers a with a licence to import wines and to sell them, both to other merchants and on the premises. Punishment of burghers was in all cases less important than mediation between offenders. A consequence of this revolution was that soldiers took over the responsibility for law enforcement and keeping the peace from burghers. What was at stake for burghers was the defence of their own political power in the context of early modern state formation. The stocks, for example, were usually located in front of the town hall, and a jail cell inside served to imprison disobedient burghers. They seem to have been patronized primarily by men from the nobility, wealthy burghers and 'non-nobles of high standing'. There also existed a certain degree of co-operation between the urban government and the burghers in view of safeguarding urban stability. However, the religious issue having been solved, the burgher opposition lacked the impetus and coherence to challenge the city council. He not only sought to discipline burghers and students but also aspired to become a policeman of knowledge. Even second and third time offenders could avoid corporal punishment if they were able to organize supplications from other burghers on their behalf. This meant, among other things, that the state could not afford to tolerate lazy, sickly, disorderly, schnapps-drinking burghers. 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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