potentate

[美國]/ˈpəʊtnteɪt/
[英國]/ˈpoʊtnteɪt/
詞頻: 非常高

中文釋義

n. 君主, 統治者, 有權勢的人
詞形

短語搭配

ruling potentate

統治者

absolute potentate

絕對統治者

political potentate

政治統治者

powerful potentate

強大的統治者

corrupt potentate

腐敗的統治者

例句

From the aproned pot-scrubber to the flanneled potentate, everybody liked me, everybody petted me.

從系圍裙的擦鍋工到穿法蘭絨的權貴,人人喜歡我,人人寵我。

The potentate ruled over the kingdom with absolute power.

這位統治者以絕對權力統治王國。

The potentate's extravagant lifestyle was the talk of the town.

統治者奢華的生活方式成爲城裏的談資。

The potentate's decree was met with mixed reactions from the people.

統治者的法令引起了人們的各種反應。

The potentate's reign was marked by prosperity and stability.

統治者的統治以繁榮和穩定爲特點。

The potentate's palace was a symbol of wealth and power.

統治者的宮殿是財富和權力的象徵。

The potentate's authority was unquestioned by his subjects.

統治者的權威在他的臣民中沒有受到質疑。

The potentate's army was feared throughout the land.

統治者的軍隊在整個土地上都備受恐懼。

The potentate's advisors played a crucial role in shaping his policies.

統治者的顧問在制定政策方面發揮了至關重要的作用。

The potentate's coronation ceremony was a grand affair.

統治者的加冕儀式是一場盛大的盛事。

The potentate's legacy endured long after his reign ended.

統治者的遺產在他統治結束後仍然長存。

原聲例句

8 Cush became the father of Nimrod, who was the first potentate on earth.

8 僱士生尼默洛得,他是世上第一個強人。

來源: New American Bible

" It is you, " replied the potentate.

“是你,”君主答道。

來源: The New Arabian Nights (Part Two)

You don't mind the new potentates taking over.

你不介意新的當權者接管。

來源: Sway

Christendom was split in the 16th century, with the pope and various Protestant potentates vying for control.

基督教世界在16世紀分裂,教皇和各種新教統治者爭奪控制權。

來源: The Economist Culture

One of the great secrets of England's success with savage races has been her consideration, her respect, her almost reverence of native customs, ceremonies, and potentates.

英格蘭在野蠻種族方面取得成功的一大祕訣在於她對當地習俗、儀式和君主的體貼、尊重和近乎崇敬。

來源: Vancouver Legend

The current Tom Thumb being an 'Arab' potentate who had lived at a Strand hotel for a fortnight, and had disappeared without the formality of paying his bill.

現任 Tom Thumb 是一位“阿拉伯”君主,他曾在 Strand 的一家酒店住了兩週,並且在沒有正式支付賬單的情況下失蹤了。

來源: A handsome face.

You do not know, you do not feel, that in your own distracted heart and disordered brain dwells the source of that unhappiness which all the potentates on earth cannot relieve.

你不知道,你沒有感覺到,在你自己心煩意亂的心和混亂的大腦中,居住着地球上所有君主都無法消除的不快樂的根源。

來源: The Sorrows of Young Werther

But when it transpired that a gift of peculiar significance was to follow the congratulations, to give them weight, the inference prevailed that the white potentate and the black had taken simultaneous leave of their fourteen senses.

但是,當祝賀之後有一份具有特殊意義的禮物出現,以增加他們的分量時,人們普遍推斷白人君主和黑人同時失去了他們的十四種感官。

來源: Amateur Thief Rafiz

And there he fell in with a deep, dark, deadly, and destructive war, waged by the princes and potentates of those parts, both spiritual and temporal, against what do you think? One thing I am sure of.

在那裏,他捲入了一場深刻、黑暗、致命和毀滅性的戰爭,這場戰爭是由那些地區的君主和君主發動的,無論是屬靈的還是世俗的,你認爲是爲了反對什麼?我確定的一件事。

來源: Water Child

Now, Phoebe's presence made a home about her, —that very sphere which the outcast, the prisoner, the potentate, —the wretch beneath mankind, the wretch aside from it, or the wretch above it, —instinctively pines after, —a home!

現在, 菲比的存在在她周圍營造了一個家——那個被遺棄者、囚犯、君主——人類之下的不幸者、人類之外的不幸者、或高高在上的不幸者——本能地渴望——一個家!

來源: Seven-angled Tower (Part 1)

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