| 词汇 | courtier |
| 释义 | courtier noun[ C ] uk /ˈkɔː.ti.ər/ us /ˈkɔːr.t̬i.ɚ/ a companion of a queen, king, or other ruler in their official home, especially in the past: （尤指旧时的）朝臣，侍臣 Many of the courtiers were strongly wedded to traditional ways of doing things.许多朝臣都恪守传统，循规蹈矩。 People who help or serve people professionally aid worker attendant au pair buddy busboy caregiver concierge demonstrator equerry FAE family liaison officer FLO odd-job man personal care assistant right-hand man roadie social worker steward stylist valet Examples of courtiercourtier Combining the conflicting expectations pertaining to the warrior knight, courtier, gentleman scholar, and local lord, the basis of aristocratic rule was varied and contested. Patronized by courtiers and under the control of city magistrates, the theatre was also from its inception closely connected with government. The foster brother bursts in and throws a net that captures all the courtiers. In the mid-1750s, beyond the royal family's lodgings there remained 226 apartments free for courtiers. On numerous occasions the king presented one of his courtiers with the money for a house or even a house itself. Musical ability, then, was increasingly important to the successful courtier. Spreading out from the central body of the palace, they pushed the courtiers and princes of the blood ever further away from the king's apartments. They were not local notables originating out of the ranks of the resident population, but courtiers of the prince governing the region. He was much more forthcoming with patrons and courtiers. The abbess's influence with the king and his courtiers is only comprehensible in the light of the business she conducted on their behalf. When a courtier asked the astrologer how long he (the astrologer) would live, the astrologer said he still had many years. At this, the courtier chopped off the astrologer's head, proving conclusively his inability to predict the future. Are the courtiers simply responding to the costume that designates him a fool? Both the polite sphere of courtiers and the commercial sphere of merchants were overlapping, so much so that they could not be kept apart. Instead, he is replaced by the modern character of the tyrant, the martyr, the courtier. 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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