viscount
英['va?ka?nt]
美['va?ka?nt]
- n. （英國的）子爵
- n. (Viscount)人名；(英)懷康特(人名)
詞態變化
復數:?viscounts;
中文詞源
viscount 子爵
vis-,副的，詞源同viceroy,vice-president,count,伯爵。
英文詞源
- viscount (n.)
- late 14c., "deputy of a count or earl," from Anglo-French and Old French visconte (Modern French vicomte), from Medieval Latin vicecomes (genitive vicecomitis), from Late Latin vice- "deputy" (see vice-) + Latin comes "member of an imperial court, nobleman" (see count (n.)). As a rank in British peerage, first recorded 1440. Related: Viscountess.
雙語例句
- 1. The viscount disembarked its passagers at the airport.
- 子爵號飛機在機場下客.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. Viscount Bagwig, our excellent ambassador, paid her marked attention.
- 我們尊貴的大使巴格威格子爵對她另眼相看.
來自辭典例句
- 3. So is this all right to welcome the viscount and his nephew?
- 我這樣接見子爵和他的侄子還合適吧?
來自電影對白
- 4. The cook was dressing some fowls for the viscount's dinner.
- 當時廚子正在宰殺家禽為子爵做晚飯.
來自互聯網
- 5. Take these flowers into the anteroom or dressing - room,'said the viscount. "
- “ 把這些花搬到前廳更衣室去, ” 子爵說.
來自互聯網