| 词汇 | earl |
| 释义 | earl noun[ C ] uk /ɜːl/ us /ɝːl/ (the title of) a British man of high social rank, between a marquis and a viscount: （英国）伯爵（封号） the Earl of Northumberland诺森伯兰伯爵 Royalty, aristocracy & titles accede to something accession anointed anti-monarchical anti-monarchist duke dukedom earldom emir emperor mister monarch monarchist morganatic Mr royally Rt. Hon. Shah sheikh sire Examples of earlearl So he returned them their arms and entered the palace with the earl. He was, nevertheless, a man of reasonable though unexceptional ability - by no means a pitiful nonentity like the second earl. The creation of new earls and marquesses inevitably led the more senior barons and earls to demand restoration of their pre-eminence. Many feared, not without reason, that the king was about to dissolve parliament, reprieve the earl, and turn against his tormenters. The fourth earl succeeded to his title while still an infant. Among the most conservative of the earl's men were his ecclesiastical tenants. Thus, the tenurial position of the earl in respect of the crown was left unwritten and to a significant extent ambiguous. At that moment the fourteen craftsmen building the earl's new mansion were discharged and removed to their parishes of settlement. However, events after 1771 when the second earl effectively went bankrupt suggest a substantial and continuing contribution. On days when the king was not present he occupied the head of the earls' bench on the left of the chamber. They have no earls, no barons, no noblemen, of whom their gentlemen should stand in awe. They were, rather, the earls' kinsmen. Earl (1995: 113) talks of an incompleteness in ' the list of rival possible states of the world that decision-makers have in mind'. The 164 earls and countesses, coming down the scale, could be charged an annual licence fee of £600, which would bring in £98,400. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No other modern society confers titles with the pretentious nomenclature of duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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