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Definition of lord in English: lordnoun lɔːdlɔrd 1A man of noble rank or high office; a nobleman. 世袭贵族；高官 lords and ladies were entertained here Example sentencesExamples - In fact, those dancing ladies and leaping lords were the most expensive items on the list.
- The noble lord spends most of his time alone and prefers not to talk about the four-year sentence he received for perjury.
- There are nearly 200 knights, lords, and their ladies milling about, conversing, boasting, laughing.
- There he established a committee of great lords and other nobles to co-ordinate counter-revolutionary activity.
- War was messy, and not a thing for delicate gentle lords and gentle ladies to discuss.
- All three of them were dressed up, wearing clothing designed for lords and nobles.
- The noble lord had gone to bed drunk, woken up an hour later, still drunk, and had convinced himself that it was breakfast time.
- When the ‘great fear’ erupted in many parts of France in 1789, the peasants who revolted made no distinction between noble and commoner lords.
- For centuries the House of Lords was made up of old aristocrats, those who were born lords or ladies.
- The banquet hall was bright and cheerful, full of nobles and lords looking dignified and regal.
- I know that he, the two lords, and the lady live together as brothers and sister, but I know not their names.
- Had Arthur considered the pain that he should cause his knights, lords, nobles, wife?
- In the past, noble lords and rich men - when they could get a licence from the Crown - built themselves a living larder in the shape of a deer park with high fences and walls.
- Stirrings of trouble have begun all over the land, in mines, on farms, in the houses of noble lords.
- Both these noble lords ruled that no politician or civil servant was to blame.
- ‘I'm sure the lords and the ladies will be there but we've got a lot of farmers, shepherds and engineers from here who are going too, working people,’ says Ann.
Synonyms noble, nobleman, peer, aristocrat, patrician, grandee - 1.1 (in the UK) a title given formally to a baron, and less formally to a marquess, earl, or viscount (prefixed to a family or territorial name)
勋爵（对男爵的正式尊称，也可用作对侯爵、伯爵或子爵的尊称，用于姓氏或领地之前） 德比男爵。 Example sentencesExamples - Lord Derby served as British Minister of War from 1916-18 during World War One.
- Who, then, was this Lord Chesterfield, about whom all of this proverbial fuss has been made?
- Lord Somerset is one of the most important and influential statesmen to have lived in the nineteenth century.
- 1.2 (in the UK) the House of Lords, or its members collectively.
上议院; 总称上院议员 Example sentencesExamples - Expenses figures from Westminster show he has resumed a busy schedule in the Lords.
- The Electoral Reform Society welcomed the commitment to a free vote on the composition of the Lords.
- The largely hereditary composition of the Lords has been modified by two pieces of legislation.
- Perhaps it would be best to skip the Commons and start on lobbying the Lords.
- The legislation is likely to be blocked in the Lords at the time of the General Election, expected in May.
- Blocked by the Lords, it was not passed as an ordinance for another four months.
- In the old days, the Lords was simply made up of individuals who happened to be born into the right family at the right time.
- This is a manifesto commitment and we will use the parliament act if the Lords object.
- It was left to the other half of the legislature, the Lords, to take a stand.
- The Fireworks Bill was given its third reading in the Lords without debate.
- Thankfully action is now being taken - I just hope that it does not get delayed too badly in the Lords.
- Those bishops who sit in the Lords do so, not as peers, but as lords of Parliament.
- By using the Act the Government can pass a bill into law without the Lords ' agreement after a year.
- It remains to be seen whether the Government will push it through without the approval of the Lords.
- He combined this post with being Deputy Leader of the Lords.
- Television cameras are now part of daily life in the House of Commons and the Lords.
- Well, we'll see this week when the Lords throws out the measure to repeal Section 28.
- There is support in the manifesto for a free vote of MPs on the make-up of the Lords.
- The bill underwent its fourth day of scrutiny during the committee stage in the Lords on Monday.
- This would clear the way for it to go to the Lords before the end of the parliamentary session in the autumn.
- 1.3 (in the UK) a courtesy title given to a younger son of a duke or marquess (prefixed to a Christian name)
阁下（用作对公爵或侯爵年纪较轻的儿子的敬称，用于教名前） 约翰·罗素阁下。 Example sentencesExamples - The Duke's younger brother, Lord Edward Corinth, and journalist Verity Browne, set out to investigate.
- Lord Edward Fitz Gerald (1763-98), fifth son of the duke of Leinster, inherited a legacy of active family rebellion against England in Tudor times.
- Lord Edward bears a passing resemblance to Lord Peter but he is a year or two younger.
- Born premature and always small in stature, Lord John Russell served twice as prime minister.
- 1.4 Used in compound titles of other people of authority.
用作高级官衔的一部分阁下，大人 行刑官阁下。 Example sentencesExamples - It concerns our leading judges, including - also very directly - the Lord Chief Justice, and how the judiciary responds to political and media pressure.
- "Please, Lord High Executioner, I beg you don't do this. The Queen has never once confided her infidelities to me. I know nothing of this."
- The position of Lord High Steward of England, not to be confused with the Lord Steward, a court functionary, is the first of the Great Officers of State.
- 1.5historical A feudal superior, especially the owner of a manor house.
〈史〉封建领主（尤指庄园宅邸所有者） Example sentencesExamples - Princes, clerics, and feudal lords often levied taxes, tithes, and rents as shares of certain crops.
- Merchants were allied to feudal lords who protected their interests.
- The Anglo-Saxons used oaths not only to swear fealty to feudal lords, but also to ensure honesty during legal proceedings and transactions.
- In Scotland the role of the feudal lord was superimposed upon the more ancient status of chief of a clan or kindred.
- Renters were squeezed by high rents in the decades before the Revolution, and many peasants found themselves facing lords who collected seigneurial dues with more rigour than ever.
- 1.6 A master or ruler.
主人；统治者 我们的统治者国王陛下。 Example sentencesExamples - We were no longer prisoners, no longer slaves, but masters, lords of this land.
- Anna is the melancholic woman of sorrows, completely dedicated to mourning the memory of her dead lord and master, while at the same time memorializing his life.
- The plotline is simple, but the real complexities of the film lie in the newspaper offices, not the fight against the evil drug lords.
- My master, the great Scholar Li K'ai-men heard these words from his lord and master, His Majesty, the Emperor Kao.
- Meara cowered, for the one thing she feared was her lord and master.
- Everyone who drew benefit from the estate was hoping that their new lord and master would not be a foreign absentee landlord, who turned up two or three times a year.
- He couldn't believe it - he was the lord and master of his own land.
- The old man paled and bowed quickly to his lord and master then rushed off to do the hateful task.
- The problem is, there are still big chunks of the country that are not secure, under the control of drug lords and warlords.
- Led by Andy and Allan, those lords of Scottish panto, this cast perform the task of convincing the audience that they really are enjoying themselves.
- Since most Fantasy stories have a medieval slant, this has resulted in a lot of wars between kings and lords and princes and demonic forces.
- As Jesus poses the parable there are two masters and two lords to choose from.
Synonyms master, lord and master, ruler, leader, chief, superior, monarch, sovereign, king, emperor, prince, governor, commander, captain, overlord, suzerain, baron, potentate, liege, liege lord - 1.7 A name for God or Christ.
上帝；耶稣 感谢上帝。 Example sentencesExamples - Let my words reflect the life, love, and grace of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, in whose name I pray, amen.
- The one person is the Lord Jesus Christ, or Jesus Christ the Lord.
- They had had a revelation of who Jesus is: both Lord and Christ.
- Everyone will know the Gospel, and everyone will know The Lord.
- I ask this in the mighty name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ!
Synonyms God, the Father, Jehovah, the Almighty, the Supreme Being, the Deity Jesus, Jesus Christ, Christ, Christ the Lord, the Messiah, the Saviour, the Son of God, the Redeemer, the Lamb of God, the Prince of Peace, the King of Kings
exclamation lɔːdlɔrd Used in exclamations expressing surprise or worry, or for emphasis. 哎呀 哎呀，好冷！ Example sentencesExamples - Someone Save Me From These Turbulent Republicans! - Oh, Lord!
- I've tried - Lord, how I've tried - to pay zero attention to the court case.
- I held a one-woman demonstration in favor of Gay Pride in Erie, PA over 30 years ago - Lord!
- Oh Lord! What a wonderful occasion!
- She felt a faint pang of fear and unknowing. Oh, Lord!
verb lɔːdlɔrd 1lord it overAct in a superior and domineering manner towards (someone) 对…作威作福 when we were at school, you used to lord it over us Example sentencesExamples - Those who are stronger, prettier and quicker tend to lord it over the kids who don't have those qualities that make one popular.
- And they lorded it over us when we made mistakes.
- This is not about lording it over Unionism but a genuine new start for future generations.
- When things are going well for them politically, they are unbearably arrogant, shoving it in everyone's faces, ungraciously lording it over all concerned.
- A while back, I wondered: ‘How long can the equilibrium of technically incompetent rulers lording it over technologically advanced societies be maintained?’
- If we hadn't done it they would have been strutting around on the steps lording it over everyone.
- She's really intelligent but she never throws it in your face or tries to lord it over you.
- She needed Amanda to help her through life; Amanda clearly needed Jennifer in order to be able to boss about and lord it over someone.
- The side which has absolutely lorded it over English club rugby for the best part of a decade have shown that their horizons have stretched outside domestic domination.
- For too long, parents have lorded it over their children!
- Sure, our game has seen extraordinary characters in the recent past, lording it over this or that club.
- Since the 16th century the Perrots had lorded it over Pembrokeshire, the grandest of them the giant Sir John, the viceroy of Ireland, said to have been the illegitimate son of Henry VIII.
- It was fast developing into a two-tier event, with France and England lording it over the Celtic subordinates.
- Their contempt for those they lorded it over never diminished.
- In the seven games that they won the young squad travelled thousands of kilometres, lording it over 191 other contesting schools.
- We do not seek to be considered superior to heterosexuals and lord it over them.
- The general behavior of the sprinters - lording it over their opponents in a taunting and self-congratulatory manner - was the opposite of what the Olympics are supposed to be about: international friendship and solidarity.
- The second-ranked bird can lord it over all those below it, and so on.
- My lovely wife has been lording it over me ever since, unimpressed with the meager success I've had with prior awards.
- It is a short step to lording it over your dispirited, lonely and inevitably disappointed wife, and your deracinated offspring.
Synonyms order about/around, boss about/around, give orders to, domineer, dominate, dictate to, pull rank on, tyrannize, bully, browbeat, oppress, repress, ride roughshod over, have under one's thumb be overbearing, put on airs, swagger informal throw one's weight about/around, act big 2archaic with object Confer the title of Lord upon. 〈古〉把…封为贵族 Sir Cadwallader Pleadwell has been lately lorded Example sentencesExamples - Patronage from the leader of your party would be the way to get lorded.
PhrasesExample sentencesExamples - This package gives you the chance to really live like a lord!
- Of course at that time I was a single man and lived like a lord.
- Gianni was well-to-do, and lived like a lord, but Lisi was so poor that he could hardly keep body and soul together.
- Currently, in Transylvania, it costs comparatively little to live like a lord.
- But many lords were more interested in, well, living like a lord, not acting like an accountant.
- But compared to most people around the world, I live like a lord.
- He lived like a lord in a luxurious villa whose German owner he had evicted, driving through the locality in a white 1938 Mercedes Benz with a German girlfriend on his arm.
- In his home he had many white servants and henchmen and really lived like a lord.
- The restaurant at lunchtime is a great place to start living like a lord.
- You can live like a lord in castles and elegant manor houses or stay in cozy village inns and luxury hotels in prime locations.
God as Lord over earthly or heavenly armies. “万军之主”耶和华 Example sentencesExamples - Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!
- And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith The Lord of hosts.
- For behold, the day comes, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
- I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!
- O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee ’.
The owner of a manor house (formerly the master of a feudal manor). 宅邸主人（原指封建庄园主） Example sentencesExamples - For instance, the lords of the manor were learning to make better use of their serfs.
- Yet manorial extents from the 1200s onwards often indicate considerable changes in the area of the lord of the manor's demesne and its management.
- In medieval Europe, everyone from the lord of the manor to the village locals had a say in deciding who should wed.
- This reliance on the local lord of the manor was all part of the feudal system introduced by William the Conqueror.
- This was a tax paid to the lord of the manor when an animal had been sold by its owner.
- By the Statute of Merton the lord of the manor or other owner of a village was allowed to enclose waste land for his own use only if he left adequate pasture for the villagers.
- After the Norman Conquest the system of feudal landholding required the lord of the manor to provide a court for his tenants.
- In feudal times the serfs had to rely on the beneficence of the lord of the manor.
- The poll tax was withdrawn but the peasants were forced back into their old way of life - under the control of the lord of the manor.
- So, the peasants paid taxes to the king, taxes to the church, taxes and dues to the lord of the manor, as well as numerous indirect taxes on wine, salt, and bread.
Synonyms noble, nobleman, peer, aristocrat, patrician, grandee
historical A person presiding over Christmas games and revelry in a wealthy household. 〈史〉富有家族中主持圣诞聚会的人 Example sentencesExamples - The fun was presided over by the Lord of Misrule, full of lewd and naughty pranks - and usually strictly for the grown-ups.
- Our pagan ancestors had a wild and boozy time presided over by the Lord of Misrule, who got up to rude and mischievous pranks.
- Cromwell's Puritanism was offended by bacchanalian revelry, led by the Lord of Misrule.
- One night just before Yuletide, the Lord of Misrule pursued the Wren Boys through London's cobbled streets.
- The songs they sang were traditional and tied in with pre-Victorian mid-winter celebrations where the Lord of Misrule presided over jollities which were rather wild at heart.
informal A haughty or socially pretentious man. Example sentencesExamples - Gapping for the school leaver, or for the newly minted graduate, is what the grand tour was for young Lord Muck in the 18th century.
- He knew exactly where his bed was and laid on it like Lord Muck, and seemed quite astonished when we told him to get off the sofa!
- With staff to milk the cows and break in the race-horses, he is free to prepare himself for his illustrious future - principally by poncing about like Lord Muck.
- They have never done a day's building work in their lives, and when they come to visit the site they ponce around like Lord Muck.
I go to church on the Lord's Day Example sentencesExamples - We rely on preaching in our church, and we have two services with preaching every Lord's Day, because we are confident in this method Jesus used and that God has promised to bless.
- Others mistakenly think that keeping the Lord's Day or attending church meetings (or doing any number of religious things) earn saving merit.
- In 1993 the Sunday Trading Act set about dismantling the legislation protecting the Lord's Day.
- Sunday is the Lord's Day, the Christian sabbath on which we rest from our labors and in Christ and refresh ourselves in worship.
- It is not the specifically Jewish Sabbath we observe, but the Lord's Day that is the Christian Sabbath.
- There are certain things to which the church should be committed, and one of those is the role of the Lord's Day in the life of the churches.
- Is it possible to have a healthy involvement in sport, and still put Christianity first particularly when it comes to keeping the Lord's Day?
- Some felt it a religious duty to observe days other than the Lord's Day.
- But they would assemble as we do on the first day of the week for worship and, frequently, if not every Lord's Day, they would celebrate the sacrament.
- Throughout the whole sickness he regularly preached every Lord's Day in some of the churches.
The prayer taught by Christ to his disciples, beginning ‘Our Father’. 主祷文 Example sentencesExamples - When Jesus taught his disciples the Lord's Prayer, he used ‘Our Father’ to address God.
- Together with the huge congregation we recited the Nicene Creed and the Lord's Prayer.
- Then, kneeling or standing, say the Apostles' Creed and the Lord's Prayer.
- As we have remarked earlier, the only part of the Lord's Prayer which Jesus repeated was the part dealing with forgiveness.
- What gave him comfort and strength, he said, were the old liturgies and prayers - the psalms, the Lord's Prayer, the creeds.
- There is even a section of prayers based on the Lord's Prayer.
- This is how we will experience the peace and unity with the Father that the Lord's Prayer describes so beautifully.
- These are the seminal texts of the tradition: the Lord's Prayer, the Magnificat, the Benedictus.
- Meetings conclude by sharing prayer requests and saying the Lord's Prayer.
- Imagine writing a book about the Lord's Prayer, or the Ave Maria, or one of Shakespeare's sonnets.
The Eucharist; Holy Communion (especially in Protestant use). 圣餐；（尤指新教）圣餐礼 Example sentencesExamples - Protestants observe only two sacraments, baptism and the Lord's Supper, for we find that these are the only two that Jesus commanded to be observed.
- The Lord's Supper and Christian worship continue this witness beyond initiation in baptism into the further dimensions of Christian life, already in the emerging kingdom of God but not yet completed.
- Even if they are baptized, Christians from denominations without a sacramental view of the Lord's Supper would hardly seem sufficiently informed about what is going on in the Episcopal rite to participate properly.
- We have God's word in Jesus, and we have God's grace in Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
- That status is confined to the Lord's Supper and baptism.
- A covenant sign was a marker token which was a reminder of reality - like the rainbow, circumcision, baptism and Lord's Supper.
- Should we call communion the Lord's Supper or Eucharist?
- In contrast to symbolic, visual worship, we have but two sacraments, the Lord's Supper and Baptism, and beyond that we are directed to worship not through anticipatory symbols and the visual, but in the Spirit through the word.
- God has given us two wonderful pictures of the gospel, Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
- The earliest theologians were concerned not only with the meaning of the Scriptures, but also, with the theological implications of such Christian practices as baptism and the Lord's Supper.
Synonyms eucharist, holy communion, lord's supper, mass
(in the UK) a polite form of address to judges, bishops, and certain noblemen. 大人，阁下（对法官、主教和贵族的尊称） ‘My Lord,’ he apologized. ‘I did not intend to give offence.’ Example sentencesExamples - Unfortunately being Lord of the Manor doesn't entitle you to be addressed as My Lord.
- The judge asked the doctor if he was sure of his testimony in light of the evidence from the other doctors. "I am quite certain, my lord," said the doctor.
- "No, my Lord Bishop," said Robin, taking his hat off and bowing politely, "no, my lord, you cannot go yet."
Used as a title for God or Jesus Christ. 上帝；耶稣 the resurrection of Our Lord Example sentencesExamples - It is reasonable to suppose that Our Lord was conceived immediately after this.
- And Our Lord is stronger than death since He has both raised us from the dead, and will raise us from the graves.
- This website is devoted to Jesus Christ Our Lord because of His infinite Good and Mercy.
Synonyms christ, jesus, jesus christ, the redeemer, the messiah, our lord, the lamb of god, the son of god, the son of man, the prince of peace, the king of kings, emmanuel
Derivativesadjective While they are ronin they cannot be part of any ‘group’ just as those lordless samurais in the feudal age in Japan. Example sentencesExamples - His retainers, now ronin, lordless samurai, pretend to scatter, some of them appearing to live dissolute lives.
- He survived unharmed, but with the establishment of the new Meiji era under the rule of the Emperor Mutsushito he was now like a ronin - a lordless samurai, drifting in the sea.
- The result is a lordless, man-centered religion supported by an elaborate biblical system.
- Beowulf begins with a description of a lordless people and ends with another lordless people; the overall tonality is elegiac, and one of the major symbols of the poem's beginning, as of its conclusion, is the funeral of a great king.
adjective The crow leisurely passed to and fro along the alleys, now lost among the little hollows and hillocks, and now emerging into sight, sometimes at a less, sometimes at a greater distance, but always with a deportment of the most lord-like indifference to the world around him. Example sentencesExamples - Cecilia had to hid a smile when she saw Kit straighten his shoulders and take a step forwards in his most lord-like manner.
OriginOld English hlāford, from hlāfweard 'bread-keeper', from a Germanic base (see loaf1, ward). Compare with lady. The root meaning of lord was ‘keeper of bread’. Old English from hlafweard, it comes from early forms of loaf and ward. The corresponding female form is lady, in Old English hlafdige ‘kneader of bread’. The Devil has many names, among them Lord of the Flies, the literal meaning of the Hebrew form Beelzebub. In 1954 William Golding published Lord of the Flies in which a group of schoolboys marooned on an uninhabited island revert to savagery and ritualistic behaviour.
Rhymesaboard, abroad, accord, afford, applaud, award, bawd, board, broad, chord, Claude, cord, ford, fraud, gaud, Gawd, hoard, horde, laud, maraud, milord, sward, sword, toward, unawed, unexplored, unrestored, ward Definition of lord in US English: lordnounlɔrdlôrd 1Someone or something having power, authority, or influence; a master or ruler. 我们的统治者国王陛下。 Example sentencesExamples - The country has sent troops to help the government combat the drug lords, rightist paramilitary forces and rebel insurgents in a 40-year conflict.
- These lords of capitalism will get off scot-free of criminal charges.
- The clout of the drug lords and traffickers would diminish, as would the funding of guerrillas and paramilitaries.
- General lawlessness has boosted poppy production, exacerbating the stark contrast between the drug lords ' riches and the abject poverty in which most citizens live.
- So it has now become a drug country; that is, the military are essentially drug lords.
- Most threat studies focus on foreign armed forces, often providing only cursory analyses of terrorists, drug lords, and rogue nations.
- Ultimately, it is the feather that has made the birds lords of the air.
- That is exactly what our government, media lords, and spin-doctors wanted, and achieved, for us, ie. reducing us to a state of insecurity and total confusion.
- First, to grant his wish of being rich and powerful she makes him a drug lord in his jungle fastness.
- There were a few who exhibited signs of demonic influence, but not that of a great ‘demon lord.’
- That was because he was known to be the largest crime lord in the entire country and no one ever dared challenge him.
- That is just a hint of what is actually a fairly convoluted story about CIA operatives, drug lords, refugees, and friendships.
- Social, complex, gentle giants of the sea, whales are the keepers of the ocean, the lords of the sea and will be here to spread their magic across the earth for many centuries more.
- The drug lords and their rebel armies are moving into other Latin American nations because a new government is getting the upper hand.
- He says police can be bribed and drug lords have a powerful influence on who will be spending time in jail and who will be released.
Synonyms master, lord and master, ruler, leader, chief, superior, monarch, sovereign, king, emperor, prince, governor, commander, captain, overlord, suzerain, baron, potentate, liege, liege lord - 1.1 (in the UK) a man of noble rank or high office; a peer.
世袭贵族；高官 Example sentencesExamples - Both these noble lords ruled that no politician or civil servant was to blame.
- Stirrings of trouble have begun all over the land, in mines, on farms, in the houses of noble lords.
- In the past, noble lords and rich men - when they could get a licence from the Crown - built themselves a living larder in the shape of a deer park with high fences and walls.
- In fact, those dancing ladies and leaping lords were the most expensive items on the list.
- I know that he, the two lords, and the lady live together as brothers and sister, but I know not their names.
- The noble lord had gone to bed drunk, woken up an hour later, still drunk, and had convinced himself that it was breakfast time.
- There are nearly 200 knights, lords, and their ladies milling about, conversing, boasting, laughing.
- ‘I'm sure the lords and the ladies will be there but we've got a lot of farmers, shepherds and engineers from here who are going too, working people,’ says Ann.
- All three of them were dressed up, wearing clothing designed for lords and nobles.
- War was messy, and not a thing for delicate gentle lords and gentle ladies to discuss.
- There he established a committee of great lords and other nobles to co-ordinate counter-revolutionary activity.
- For centuries the House of Lords was made up of old aristocrats, those who were born lords or ladies.
- When the ‘great fear’ erupted in many parts of France in 1789, the peasants who revolted made no distinction between noble and commoner lords.
- The noble lord spends most of his time alone and prefers not to talk about the four-year sentence he received for perjury.
- The banquet hall was bright and cheerful, full of nobles and lords looking dignified and regal.
- Had Arthur considered the pain that he should cause his knights, lords, nobles, wife?
Synonyms noble, nobleman, peer, aristocrat, patrician, grandee - 1.2Lord (in the UK) a title given formally to a baron, and less formally to a marquess, earl, or viscount (prefixed to a family or territorial name)
勋爵（对男爵的正式尊称，也可用作对侯爵、伯爵或子爵的尊称，用于姓氏或领地之前） 德比男爵。 Example sentencesExamples - Lord Somerset is one of the most important and influential statesmen to have lived in the nineteenth century.
- Who, then, was this Lord Chesterfield, about whom all of this proverbial fuss has been made?
- Lord Derby served as British Minister of War from 1916-18 during World War One.
- 1.3the Lords (in the UK) the House of Lords, or its members collectively.
上议院; 总称上院议员 Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps it would be best to skip the Commons and start on lobbying the Lords.
- The legislation is likely to be blocked in the Lords at the time of the General Election, expected in May.
- Television cameras are now part of daily life in the House of Commons and the Lords.
- The Fireworks Bill was given its third reading in the Lords without debate.
- The largely hereditary composition of the Lords has been modified by two pieces of legislation.
- This would clear the way for it to go to the Lords before the end of the parliamentary session in the autumn.
- It remains to be seen whether the Government will push it through without the approval of the Lords.
- By using the Act the Government can pass a bill into law without the Lords ' agreement after a year.
- Well, we'll see this week when the Lords throws out the measure to repeal Section 28.
- Thankfully action is now being taken - I just hope that it does not get delayed too badly in the Lords.
- The bill underwent its fourth day of scrutiny during the committee stage in the Lords on Monday.
- This is a manifesto commitment and we will use the parliament act if the Lords object.
- It was left to the other half of the legislature, the Lords, to take a stand.
- Those bishops who sit in the Lords do so, not as peers, but as lords of Parliament.
- Expenses figures from Westminster show he has resumed a busy schedule in the Lords.
- Blocked by the Lords, it was not passed as an ordinance for another four months.
- There is support in the manifesto for a free vote of MPs on the make-up of the Lords.
- The Electoral Reform Society welcomed the commitment to a free vote on the composition of the Lords.
- He combined this post with being Deputy Leader of the Lords.
- In the old days, the Lords was simply made up of individuals who happened to be born into the right family at the right time.
- 1.4Lord (in the UK) a courtesy title given to a younger son of a duke or marquess (prefixed to a Christian name)
阁下（用作对公爵或侯爵年纪较轻的儿子的敬称，用于教名前） 约翰·罗素阁下。 Example sentencesExamples - Lord Edward bears a passing resemblance to Lord Peter but he is a year or two younger.
- Lord Edward Fitz Gerald (1763-98), fifth son of the duke of Leinster, inherited a legacy of active family rebellion against England in Tudor times.
- The Duke's younger brother, Lord Edward Corinth, and journalist Verity Browne, set out to investigate.
- Born premature and always small in stature, Lord John Russell served twice as prime minister.
- 1.5 (in the UK) in compound titles of other people of authority.
用作高级官衔的一部分阁下，大人 行刑官阁下。 Example sentencesExamples - The position of Lord High Steward of England, not to be confused with the Lord Steward, a court functionary, is the first of the Great Officers of State.
- It concerns our leading judges, including - also very directly - the Lord Chief Justice, and how the judiciary responds to political and media pressure.
- "Please, Lord High Executioner, I beg you don't do this. The Queen has never once confided her infidelities to me. I know nothing of this."
- 1.6historical A feudal superior, especially the proprietor of a manor house.
〈史〉封建领主（尤指庄园宅邸所有者） Example sentencesExamples - Merchants were allied to feudal lords who protected their interests.
- Renters were squeezed by high rents in the decades before the Revolution, and many peasants found themselves facing lords who collected seigneurial dues with more rigour than ever.
- The Anglo-Saxons used oaths not only to swear fealty to feudal lords, but also to ensure honesty during legal proceedings and transactions.
- In Scotland the role of the feudal lord was superimposed upon the more ancient status of chief of a clan or kindred.
- Princes, clerics, and feudal lords often levied taxes, tithes, and rents as shares of certain crops.
- 1.7Lord A name for God or Christ.
上帝；耶稣 感谢上帝。 Example sentencesExamples - Everyone will know the Gospel, and everyone will know The Lord.
- They had had a revelation of who Jesus is: both Lord and Christ.
- The one person is the Lord Jesus Christ, or Jesus Christ the Lord.
- Let my words reflect the life, love, and grace of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, in whose name I pray, amen.
- I ask this in the mighty name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ!
Synonyms god, the father, jehovah, the almighty, the supreme being, the deity
exclamationlɔrdlôrd LordUsed in exclamations expressing surprise or worry, or for emphasis. 哎呀 哎呀，好冷！ Example sentencesExamples - Someone Save Me From These Turbulent Republicans! - Oh, Lord!
- I held a one-woman demonstration in favor of Gay Pride in Erie, PA over 30 years ago - Lord!
- She felt a faint pang of fear and unknowing. Oh, Lord!
- I've tried - Lord, how I've tried - to pay zero attention to the court case.
- Oh Lord! What a wonderful occasion!
verblɔrdlôrd 1lord it overAct in a superior and domineering manner toward (someone). 对…作威作福 Example sentencesExamples - This is not about lording it over Unionism but a genuine new start for future generations.
- The side which has absolutely lorded it over English club rugby for the best part of a decade have shown that their horizons have stretched outside domestic domination.
- And they lorded it over us when we made mistakes.
- She needed Amanda to help her through life; Amanda clearly needed Jennifer in order to be able to boss about and lord it over someone.
- It is a short step to lording it over your dispirited, lonely and inevitably disappointed wife, and your deracinated offspring.
- If we hadn't done it they would have been strutting around on the steps lording it over everyone.
- We do not seek to be considered superior to heterosexuals and lord it over them.
- Since the 16th century the Perrots had lorded it over Pembrokeshire, the grandest of them the giant Sir John, the viceroy of Ireland, said to have been the illegitimate son of Henry VIII.
- A while back, I wondered: ‘How long can the equilibrium of technically incompetent rulers lording it over technologically advanced societies be maintained?’
- The general behavior of the sprinters - lording it over their opponents in a taunting and self-congratulatory manner - was the opposite of what the Olympics are supposed to be about: international friendship and solidarity.
- She's really intelligent but she never throws it in your face or tries to lord it over you.
- It was fast developing into a two-tier event, with France and England lording it over the Celtic subordinates.
- The second-ranked bird can lord it over all those below it, and so on.
- Those who are stronger, prettier and quicker tend to lord it over the kids who don't have those qualities that make one popular.
- When things are going well for them politically, they are unbearably arrogant, shoving it in everyone's faces, ungraciously lording it over all concerned.
- My lovely wife has been lording it over me ever since, unimpressed with the meager success I've had with prior awards.
- Their contempt for those they lorded it over never diminished.
- For too long, parents have lorded it over their children!
- In the seven games that they won the young squad travelled thousands of kilometres, lording it over 191 other contesting schools.
- Sure, our game has seen extraordinary characters in the recent past, lording it over this or that club.
Synonyms order about, order around, boss about, boss around, give orders to, domineer, dominate, dictate to, pull rank on, tyrannize, bully, browbeat, oppress, repress, ride roughshod over, have under one's thumb 2archaic with object Confer the title of Lord upon. 〈古〉把…封为贵族 Example sentencesExamples - Patronage from the leader of your party would be the way to get lorded.
PhrasesExample sentencesExamples - Currently, in Transylvania, it costs comparatively little to live like a lord.
- You can live like a lord in castles and elegant manor houses or stay in cozy village inns and luxury hotels in prime locations.
- Of course at that time I was a single man and lived like a lord.
- Gianni was well-to-do, and lived like a lord, but Lisi was so poor that he could hardly keep body and soul together.
- The restaurant at lunchtime is a great place to start living like a lord.
- But compared to most people around the world, I live like a lord.
- This package gives you the chance to really live like a lord!
- But many lords were more interested in, well, living like a lord, not acting like an accountant.
- He lived like a lord in a luxurious villa whose German owner he had evicted, driving through the locality in a white 1938 Mercedes Benz with a German girlfriend on his arm.
- In his home he had many white servants and henchmen and really lived like a lord.
God as Lord over earthly or heavenly armies. “万军之主”耶和华 Example sentencesExamples - Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!
- For behold, the day comes, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
- And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith The Lord of hosts.
- I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!
- O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee ’.
The owner of a manor house (formerly the master of a feudal manor). 宅邸主人（原指封建庄园主） Example sentencesExamples - This was a tax paid to the lord of the manor when an animal had been sold by its owner.
- This reliance on the local lord of the manor was all part of the feudal system introduced by William the Conqueror.
- After the Norman Conquest the system of feudal landholding required the lord of the manor to provide a court for his tenants.
- So, the peasants paid taxes to the king, taxes to the church, taxes and dues to the lord of the manor, as well as numerous indirect taxes on wine, salt, and bread.
- Yet manorial extents from the 1200s onwards often indicate considerable changes in the area of the lord of the manor's demesne and its management.
- By the Statute of Merton the lord of the manor or other owner of a village was allowed to enclose waste land for his own use only if he left adequate pasture for the villagers.
- In feudal times the serfs had to rely on the beneficence of the lord of the manor.
- The poll tax was withdrawn but the peasants were forced back into their old way of life - under the control of the lord of the manor.
- For instance, the lords of the manor were learning to make better use of their serfs.
- In medieval Europe, everyone from the lord of the manor to the village locals had a say in deciding who should wed.
Synonyms noble, nobleman, peer, aristocrat, patrician, grandee
historical A person presiding over Christmas games and revelry in a wealthy household. 〈史〉富有家族中主持圣诞聚会的人 Example sentencesExamples - Our pagan ancestors had a wild and boozy time presided over by the Lord of Misrule, who got up to rude and mischievous pranks.
- One night just before Yuletide, the Lord of Misrule pursued the Wren Boys through London's cobbled streets.
- The fun was presided over by the Lord of Misrule, full of lewd and naughty pranks - and usually strictly for the grown-ups.
- Cromwell's Puritanism was offended by bacchanalian revelry, led by the Lord of Misrule.
- The songs they sang were traditional and tied in with pre-Victorian mid-winter celebrations where the Lord of Misrule presided over jollities which were rather wild at heart.
Example sentencesExamples - Throughout the whole sickness he regularly preached every Lord's Day in some of the churches.
- We rely on preaching in our church, and we have two services with preaching every Lord's Day, because we are confident in this method Jesus used and that God has promised to bless.
- Sunday is the Lord's Day, the Christian sabbath on which we rest from our labors and in Christ and refresh ourselves in worship.
- There are certain things to which the church should be committed, and one of those is the role of the Lord's Day in the life of the churches.
- Some felt it a religious duty to observe days other than the Lord's Day.
- Is it possible to have a healthy involvement in sport, and still put Christianity first particularly when it comes to keeping the Lord's Day?
- It is not the specifically Jewish Sabbath we observe, but the Lord's Day that is the Christian Sabbath.
- In 1993 the Sunday Trading Act set about dismantling the legislation protecting the Lord's Day.
- Others mistakenly think that keeping the Lord's Day or attending church meetings (or doing any number of religious things) earn saving merit.
- But they would assemble as we do on the first day of the week for worship and, frequently, if not every Lord's Day, they would celebrate the sacrament.
The prayer taught by Jesus to his disciples, beginning “Our Father.”. 主祷文 Example sentencesExamples - Imagine writing a book about the Lord's Prayer, or the Ave Maria, or one of Shakespeare's sonnets.
- These are the seminal texts of the tradition: the Lord's Prayer, the Magnificat, the Benedictus.
- What gave him comfort and strength, he said, were the old liturgies and prayers - the psalms, the Lord's Prayer, the creeds.
- Then, kneeling or standing, say the Apostles' Creed and the Lord's Prayer.
- When Jesus taught his disciples the Lord's Prayer, he used ‘Our Father’ to address God.
- Meetings conclude by sharing prayer requests and saying the Lord's Prayer.
- Together with the huge congregation we recited the Nicene Creed and the Lord's Prayer.
- There is even a section of prayers based on the Lord's Prayer.
- This is how we will experience the peace and unity with the Father that the Lord's Prayer describes so beautifully.
- As we have remarked earlier, the only part of the Lord's Prayer which Jesus repeated was the part dealing with forgiveness.
The Eucharist; Holy Communion (especially in Protestant use). 圣餐；（尤指新教）圣餐礼 Example sentencesExamples - Protestants observe only two sacraments, baptism and the Lord's Supper, for we find that these are the only two that Jesus commanded to be observed.
- That status is confined to the Lord's Supper and baptism.
- The earliest theologians were concerned not only with the meaning of the Scriptures, but also, with the theological implications of such Christian practices as baptism and the Lord's Supper.
- In contrast to symbolic, visual worship, we have but two sacraments, the Lord's Supper and Baptism, and beyond that we are directed to worship not through anticipatory symbols and the visual, but in the Spirit through the word.
- Should we call communion the Lord's Supper or Eucharist?
- A covenant sign was a marker token which was a reminder of reality - like the rainbow, circumcision, baptism and Lord's Supper.
- Even if they are baptized, Christians from denominations without a sacramental view of the Lord's Supper would hardly seem sufficiently informed about what is going on in the Episcopal rite to participate properly.
- God has given us two wonderful pictures of the gospel, Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
- The Lord's Supper and Christian worship continue this witness beyond initiation in baptism into the further dimensions of Christian life, already in the emerging kingdom of God but not yet completed.
- We have God's word in Jesus, and we have God's grace in Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
Synonyms eucharist, holy communion, lord's supper, mass
(in the UK) a polite form of address to judges, bishops, and certain noblemen. 大人，阁下（对法官、主教和贵族的尊称） Example sentencesExamples - Unfortunately being Lord of the Manor doesn't entitle you to be addressed as My Lord.
- "No, my Lord Bishop," said Robin, taking his hat off and bowing politely, "no, my lord, you cannot go yet."
- The judge asked the doctor if he was sure of his testimony in light of the evidence from the other doctors. "I am quite certain, my lord," said the doctor.
Example sentencesExamples - This website is devoted to Jesus Christ Our Lord because of His infinite Good and Mercy.
- It is reasonable to suppose that Our Lord was conceived immediately after this.
- And Our Lord is stronger than death since He has both raised us from the dead, and will raise us from the graves.
Synonyms christ, jesus, jesus christ, the redeemer, the messiah, our lord, the lamb of god, the son of god, the son of man, the prince of peace, the king of kings, emmanuel
OriginOld English hlāford, from hlāfweard ‘bread-keeper’, from a Germanic base (see loaf, ward). Compare with lady. |