Definition of royal in English:

royal

adjective ˈrɔɪəlˈrɔɪ(ə)l

1Having the status of a king or queen or a member of their family.
国王的；女王的；王室的；王族的
contributors included members of the royal family
捐献者中有王室成员。
Example sentencesExamples
- Boromo Trailokanat resolved the question of succession by ranking every member of the royal family in relation to the reigning monarch.
- He was the first member of the royal family to visit Siberia, where his encounter with the lives of convicts and exiles led to a certain improvement in their lot after he became tsar.
- The Queen is not the only member of the royal family to have personal flags.
- It is hoped a visit by a member of the royal family will take place on June 18.
- The members of the royal family who are in line to the throne cannot take the chances that our children and grandchildren would take.
- Factions formed around the heir to the throne and other members of the royal family as well as in the entourage of ministers.
- As well as the Queen Mother, the queen and her husband Prince Philip, most other members of the royal family are due to attend the funeral.
- Some 25 British Royals, as well as members of foreign royal families, were in attendance.
- The fraud was discovered after two diamonds sold for $15 million to members of the Saudi royal family.
- Prince Fahd was the third member of the Saudi royal family to die in just over a week.
- The dramatic scenery has also attracted famous visitors over the years, including composer Edvard Grieg and members of Norway's royal family.
- There wasn't a stiffness or an awkwardness, which there can be sometimes with other members of the royal family because you're so aware of protocol.
- Altogether, 36 members of the royal family attended, including the princes William and Harry.
- State honors, generally reserved for members of the Nepalese royal family, were given to Babu Chhiri, who established at least two climbing records.
- The play is about Anastasia Romanov, a member of the Russian royal family, after the fall of the Russian monarchy in 1918.
- Legal experts said the couple could not marry in a civil ceremony in England because the 1836 Marriage Act bars members of the royal family from doing so.
- After the service, blessing and reception the royal couple have spent this week on honeymoon on the Balmoral estate in Scotland.
- In addition to all this, they've had several members of the royal family, government officials and business leaders visiting from Thailand.
- Only recently, he has been busy working on a large order for a member of the royal family, although a confidentiality clause prevents him from naming the client.
- The royal couple greeted villagers after attending a church service this morning.
Synonyms
regal, monarchal, monarchial, monarchical, sovereign, kingly, queenly, princely, majestic
1. 1.1 Belonging to, carried out, or exercised by a king or queen.
  （属于）国王的；（属于）女王的
  the royal palace
  王宫。
  the coalition obtained royal approval for the appointment
  联合政府内阁成员的任命得到了国王的批准。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The magnificence of royal palaces, no matter how richly appointed, cannot take away the disappointment of a bad performance.
  Numerous imperial and royal palaces survived into the early Middle Ages and were restored or rebuilt.
  The Duke of Edinburgh was in Rochdale on Friday 19 November 1976 to give the royal seal of approval to the town's new shopping centre and magistrates court.
  Largely amassed since the reign of Charles I, the Royal Collection is housed at The Queen's official and private residences and the historic royal palaces.
  It was his business to depict palaces and royal chapels, but he did not hesitate to show them without majesty - under scaffolds or being repaired.
  Six times the size of the royal residence of the Maharaja of Jaipur, the new extension has grand plans to open its doors to welcome as many people as it can.
  Near the end of his reign, King Behanzin ordered his troops to burn the royal palaces rather than see them fall into French hands.
  I can see the great royal palace of Mandalay, shimmering across the moat.
  In an age when royal patronage was a precarious and unreliable commodity, writing for the theatre provided a measure of financial security for anyone prepared to submit to its rigours.
  Stuart and Rosemary Robson have translated and edited eighteen essays about Javanese royal palaces in the late colonial period.
  By lending large sums to Henry III and Edward I, they obtained royal patronage and protection.
  By 1699 he was again under royal patronage working for William III and Mary at Hampton Court.
  Castles, stately homes and royal palaces comprise nine per cent of all listed buildings and industrial heritage accounts for five per cent.
  Prince Charles gave the royal seal of approval to the appeal launched by St John's Church in Devizes by attending a fundraising concert.
  The Restoration brought back the Stuarts but not intensive royal patronage.
  West of the city there was also much activity around Westminster where an abbey existed from at least the 8th century and which later became the focus for a royal palace and the seat of power.
  Prince Andrew of Greece was reburied in the royal Summer Palace at Tatoi in Athens.
  Otley's new £15m hospital was given the royal seal of approval when it was officially opened by Princess Anne.
  From here you can walk to Amalienborg, the royal palace, the impressive buildings of which are patrolled by guards in busbies.
  In 1830, it was granted royal patronage by Queen Victoria and became the Manchester Royal Infirmary.
  Synonyms
  regal, kingly, queenly, kinglike, queenlike, princely
  sovereign, monarchical
2. 1.2 In the service or under the patronage of a king or queen.
  服侍国王（或女王）的，为王室服务的；得到国王（或女王）恩赐的
  a royal maid
  一个王室侍女。
  Example sentencesExamples
  When a guest at a ball for royal staff at Buckingham Palace the Duke asked her what she thought of the food.
  The most famous traditional costumes in England are the red uniforms and high black hats worn by the royal guard at Buckingham Palace.
  The TV chef once worked as a royal footman at Buckingham Palace, where he noted that the Queen hated food to be thrown away.
  The production company yesterday handed over tapes of footage it had shot in St Andrews to Buckingham Palace for royal officials to examine.
  When Queen Hatsheput moved her court to Punt, an artist of the time did a wall painting which still exists, showing royal attendants carrying sheaves of herbs.
  His wife, he said, understood the pressures of a life as a royal butler because she was the Duke of Edinburgh's maid for 16 years.
  She had been a royal Maid of Honour from 1853 and her marriage had brought her closer to the throne.
3. 1.3 Of a quality or size suitable for a king or queen; splendid.
  适于国王（或女王）的；盛大的；高贵的；豪华的；庄严的；极好的；极大的
  she received a royal welcome
  Example sentencesExamples
  The wanderer received a royal welcome in Santa Barbara from his mother-in-law and such brothers- and sisters-in-law as were about.
  When we arrived at the club we got somewhat of a royal welcome and were ushered inside to a table set for six.
  Certainly there was a royal quality to the servings - I struggled to finish them.
  The people of Tory Island and their King were treated to a royal welcome in Monasterevin last weekend.
  His visit had been a big media event in the Gulf too and he was accorded a royal welcome at the Dubai airport.
  He ensured there were Tudor roses on the gowns of the staff and on the Tudor coloured counterpanes of the beds; the roof and stained glass windows were also of royal quality.
  There is more to Rajasthan than just its royal splendour or amazing camel rides through never-ending sand dunes.
  Fans, teachers and fellow students gave him a royal welcome as he returned for the start of the final year of his sports diploma at the college.
  This weekend bonanza got off to a flying start when the guests were welcomed in the royal traditional style, garlanded and saluted by elephants.
  Synonyms
  excellent, fine, marvellous, magnificent, splendid, superb, wonderful, first-rate, first-class
  informal fantastic, terrific, great, tremendous, grand
4. 1.4British informal attributive Real; utter (used for emphasis)
  〈英，非正式〉用于加重语气真正的；完全的
  she's a right royal pain in the behind
  她屁股真的很痛。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Not a great thing for a journalist hoping for a right royal row to report.
  Justin was being a royal pain, so I took out a restraining order on him along about the end of August.
  Puppies are a royal pain, because they chew everything and you have to potty train them.
  A right royal welcome was extended to war veteran Reg Samways when he returned to Norway 63 years after playing his part in the rescue of King Haakon.
  For me, this was such an exciting story and a subject that's really never gotten the real royal cinematic treatment.
  Until I discovered the website, my finances were in a right royal mess, and being in the red was something that happened almost every month.
  Now even the Queen herself has seen fit to give the London media a right royal ticking off.
  You know, algebra was a royal pain, literature was kind of boring, world history was alright.
  I've worked with these a lot, and they're a royal pain.
  Staff and residents at an Ilkley nursing home are preparing a right royal welcome for a special visitor to the town.
  The princess wants to run away, much to the King and Queen's concern, and only our hero can prevent a right royal row.
  Then there was the fact that his supervisor, Arthur Jones, was a royal pain.
  He was a royal pain to the nurses because he bossed them around just like he did his employees.
  Now to some that might sound like a right royal waste of money, but when you stop to think about how much said chair will be used the cost is much easier to justify.
  He may crave the role of honest voice in the wilderness, but what really pushes North's buttons is giving his old allies in the green movement a right royal kicking.
  This accident, sickness and unemployment cover is a right royal rip-off, as this article reveals!
  This was somewhat surprising; usually it was a royal pain to get him to drive me anywhere.
  I'm all for getting out of my ill-lit, unpleasantly fragrant apartment, but going to the mall can be a royal pain.
  Last Tuesday her dedication and hard work received a right royal accolade.
  It was Richard's way of celebrating a right royal event - a half century of trading.
  2003 will go down in stock-market history as a right royal roller coaster of a year!
  Updating may be a snap with a cable modem, but it's a royal pain with even the fastest dial-up connection.
  They prepared a right royal welcome for her at Manchester - but she surprised them by arriving back in Rochdale unannounced to get the champagne corks popping.
  A right royal rumpus has erupted over York's Golden Jubilee Rugby League Festival after a team from Oxford tried once again to muscle in on the event.
  Synonyms
  complete, utter, total, real, absolute, thorough, veritable
  informal flaming, damn, damned, blasted, blessed, confounded
  British informal proper, right, flipping, blinking, blooming, bloody, bleeding, effing, chuffing
  Australian/New Zealand informal plurry
  British informal, dated bally, ruddy
  vulgar slang fucking, frigging

noun ˈrɔɪəlˈrɔɪ(ə)l

1informal A member of the royal family.
〈非正式〉王室成员
the royals are coming under the TV microscope
Example sentencesExamples
- At the Abbey, members of the Royal Family, foreign royals, members of the Bowes Lyon family and other blood relatives move in procession to their seats.
- At least seven prime ministers including Italy's Silvio Berlusconi are also expected to attend as are royals Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Britain's Prince Edward, among others.
- He made a name for himself painting dogs and was commissioned to paint for various royals including King Edward VII and King George VI.
- We also took a turn around some of the state rooms, sat on one of the royal sofas, and viewed vast collections of porcelain and pictures of Queen Victoria and her family and long-dead royals whose names we didn't recognise.
- Church officials were anxious to point out that the Anglican leader entertains royals, visiting heads of state, top politicians and secular and religious leaders from home and abroad.
- Although the late Queen Mother remains her favourite royal, she has met Prince Charles numerous times.
- It is traditionally a winter retreat for royals such as Prince Michael of Kent and King Juan Carlos of Spain, but it is fast becoming a playground for nouveau riche Russians.
- Political leaders saddened by Princess Margaret's death have paid tribute to the popular royal.
- There will be a grand banquet Friday that is expected to be attended by thousands of royals and leaders from all over the world.
- Some 35 members of the Royal Family and 25 foreign royals were there to pay a personal tribute.
- We don't live in a Renaissance city-state, or a monarchy where the royals and the aristocrats order up lots of art, portraits, and public buildings, and are patrons of writers.
- Among the guests who will attend the blessing, along with the senior British royals, foreign royals, dignitaries and a handful of politicians, will be a host of friends and celebrities.
- At 11.10 am Royal Family members, foreign royals and members of the Queen Mother's family will be seated.
- Like most royals, Ranjit Singh is a connoisseur of the arts.
- Mums are queuing up to get their hands on a classically designed pram favoured by royals and celebrities.
- Numerous monarchs and other royals are buried there as well.
- The princess is the third royal to visit Saskatchewan in the last three years.
- One of the last great houses to be built in Cheshire is Henbury Hall, commissioned by Sebastian de Ferranti, the retired industrialist and friend of Prince Charles and other royals.
Synonyms
monarch, sovereign, king, queen, emperor, empress, tsar, tsarina, prince, princess, potentate, head of state, leader, chief, ruler, lord, overlord
2
short for royal sail or royal mast
3
short for royal stag
4mass noun A paper size, 636 × 480 mm.
1. 4.1 A book size, 234 × 156 mm.
  八开本，八开纸（234 × 156 mm）
2. 4.2 A book size, 312 × 237 mm.
  四开本（312 × 237 mm）
5Bell-ringing
A system of change-ringing using ten bells.
〔鸣钟术〕敲奉十口钟的变换响

Phrases

royal road to

A way of attaining or reaching something without trouble.
捷径，快捷方式
there is no royal road to teaching
教无捷径。
Example sentencesExamples
- I can start, I suppose, by attacking the notion that liberalism or secularism - or even nihilism, for that matter - is the royal road to totalitarianism.
- Variation and selection is the royal road to adaptive fitness.
- There is no doubt that Ben is right and the royal road to fame often involves poverty, hard work and a long training in one's art or craft.
- Freud famously said that dreams were the royal road to the unconscious; perhaps the movies offer another way to get there.
- This view exemplifies the general scholarly preoccupation with context - historical, political, cultural and social - as the royal road to the successful interpretation of folklore.
- The privatization of large banks and industries from the 1980s, though designed to limit the influence of the state bourgeoisie, actually increased pantouflage, as state service remained the royal road to these lucrative posts.
- And superior productivity is, of course, the royal road to higher wages.
- The therapist relied on the client's knowledgeability as the royal road to understanding.
- With nations, as with individuals, dependency is not the royal road to prosperity.
- It has become orthodoxy in most texts on politics and political science that something called ‘economic liberalisation’ is the royal road to international acceptability.
- Students are thus invited to follow the royal road into neoclassical economics and, in the process, forced to pay a substantial toll to the authors of the chosen textbook.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French roial, from Latin regalis 'regal'.

rule from Middle English:
We think of rules as giving us lines to follow, and the word goes back to Latin regula ‘straight stick’, and beyond that to regere ‘to rule’, the source of regency and royal (Late Middle English). To rule the roost is to be in complete control. The original form of the phrase was rule the roast, from the end of the 15th century, which may imply that it referred to the most important person at a banquet or feast. Roast changed to roost in the 18th century when people started thinking about a cockerel asserting itself over the other roosting birds in the farmyard. The rule in run the rule over, ‘to examine quickly’, is a measuring stick or ruler. It has the same meaning in rule of thumb, ‘a broadly accurate guide based on practice rather than theory’. This expression, recorded from 1692, is probably from the ancient use of parts of the body, such as the foot and the hand, as units of measurement. The first joint of a man's thumb is about an inch long, and so is useful for making rough measurements when you have mislaid your ruler. See also rail

Rhymes

loyal, viceroyal

Definition of royal in US English:

royal

adjectiveˈrɔɪ(ə)lˈroi(ə)l

1Having the status of a king or queen or a member of their family.
国王的；女王的；王室的；王族的
contributors included members of the royal family
捐献者中有王室成员。
Example sentencesExamples
- The fraud was discovered after two diamonds sold for $15 million to members of the Saudi royal family.
- Altogether, 36 members of the royal family attended, including the princes William and Harry.
- The play is about Anastasia Romanov, a member of the Russian royal family, after the fall of the Russian monarchy in 1918.
- Only recently, he has been busy working on a large order for a member of the royal family, although a confidentiality clause prevents him from naming the client.
- Boromo Trailokanat resolved the question of succession by ranking every member of the royal family in relation to the reigning monarch.
- The Queen is not the only member of the royal family to have personal flags.
- After the service, blessing and reception the royal couple have spent this week on honeymoon on the Balmoral estate in Scotland.
- The royal couple greeted villagers after attending a church service this morning.
- In addition to all this, they've had several members of the royal family, government officials and business leaders visiting from Thailand.
- Factions formed around the heir to the throne and other members of the royal family as well as in the entourage of ministers.
- Legal experts said the couple could not marry in a civil ceremony in England because the 1836 Marriage Act bars members of the royal family from doing so.
- Some 25 British Royals, as well as members of foreign royal families, were in attendance.
- State honors, generally reserved for members of the Nepalese royal family, were given to Babu Chhiri, who established at least two climbing records.
- It is hoped a visit by a member of the royal family will take place on June 18.
- The members of the royal family who are in line to the throne cannot take the chances that our children and grandchildren would take.
- The dramatic scenery has also attracted famous visitors over the years, including composer Edvard Grieg and members of Norway's royal family.
- He was the first member of the royal family to visit Siberia, where his encounter with the lives of convicts and exiles led to a certain improvement in their lot after he became tsar.
- There wasn't a stiffness or an awkwardness, which there can be sometimes with other members of the royal family because you're so aware of protocol.
- Prince Fahd was the third member of the Saudi royal family to die in just over a week.
- As well as the Queen Mother, the queen and her husband Prince Philip, most other members of the royal family are due to attend the funeral.
Synonyms
regal, monarchal, monarchial, monarchical, sovereign, kingly, queenly, princely, majestic
1. 1.1 Belonging to, carried out, or exercised by a king or queen.
  （属于）国王的；（属于）女王的
  the royal palace
  王宫。
  the coalition obtained royal approval for the appointment
  联合政府内阁成员的任命得到了国王的批准。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Duke of Edinburgh was in Rochdale on Friday 19 November 1976 to give the royal seal of approval to the town's new shopping centre and magistrates court.
  It was his business to depict palaces and royal chapels, but he did not hesitate to show them without majesty - under scaffolds or being repaired.
  By 1699 he was again under royal patronage working for William III and Mary at Hampton Court.
  Otley's new £15m hospital was given the royal seal of approval when it was officially opened by Princess Anne.
  In an age when royal patronage was a precarious and unreliable commodity, writing for the theatre provided a measure of financial security for anyone prepared to submit to its rigours.
  West of the city there was also much activity around Westminster where an abbey existed from at least the 8th century and which later became the focus for a royal palace and the seat of power.
  From here you can walk to Amalienborg, the royal palace, the impressive buildings of which are patrolled by guards in busbies.
  Stuart and Rosemary Robson have translated and edited eighteen essays about Javanese royal palaces in the late colonial period.
  Numerous imperial and royal palaces survived into the early Middle Ages and were restored or rebuilt.
  The magnificence of royal palaces, no matter how richly appointed, cannot take away the disappointment of a bad performance.
  In 1830, it was granted royal patronage by Queen Victoria and became the Manchester Royal Infirmary.
  Prince Charles gave the royal seal of approval to the appeal launched by St John's Church in Devizes by attending a fundraising concert.
  Castles, stately homes and royal palaces comprise nine per cent of all listed buildings and industrial heritage accounts for five per cent.
  Prince Andrew of Greece was reburied in the royal Summer Palace at Tatoi in Athens.
  The Restoration brought back the Stuarts but not intensive royal patronage.
  By lending large sums to Henry III and Edward I, they obtained royal patronage and protection.
  Six times the size of the royal residence of the Maharaja of Jaipur, the new extension has grand plans to open its doors to welcome as many people as it can.
  I can see the great royal palace of Mandalay, shimmering across the moat.
  Near the end of his reign, King Behanzin ordered his troops to burn the royal palaces rather than see them fall into French hands.
  Largely amassed since the reign of Charles I, the Royal Collection is housed at The Queen's official and private residences and the historic royal palaces.
  Synonyms
  regal, kingly, queenly, kinglike, queenlike, princely
2. 1.2attributive In the service or under the patronage of a king or queen.
  服侍国王（或女王）的，为王室服务的；得到国王（或女王）恩赐的
  a royal maid
  一个王室侍女。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The most famous traditional costumes in England are the red uniforms and high black hats worn by the royal guard at Buckingham Palace.
  The production company yesterday handed over tapes of footage it had shot in St Andrews to Buckingham Palace for royal officials to examine.
  When a guest at a ball for royal staff at Buckingham Palace the Duke asked her what she thought of the food.
  She had been a royal Maid of Honour from 1853 and her marriage had brought her closer to the throne.
  When Queen Hatsheput moved her court to Punt, an artist of the time did a wall painting which still exists, showing royal attendants carrying sheaves of herbs.
  His wife, he said, understood the pressures of a life as a royal butler because she was the Duke of Edinburgh's maid for 16 years.
  The TV chef once worked as a royal footman at Buckingham Palace, where he noted that the Queen hated food to be thrown away.
3. 1.3attributive Of a quality or size suitable for a king or queen; splendid.
  适于国王（或女王）的；盛大的；高贵的；豪华的；庄严的；极好的；极大的
  a royal fortune
  一大笔财富。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Fans, teachers and fellow students gave him a royal welcome as he returned for the start of the final year of his sports diploma at the college.
  There is more to Rajasthan than just its royal splendour or amazing camel rides through never-ending sand dunes.
  He ensured there were Tudor roses on the gowns of the staff and on the Tudor coloured counterpanes of the beds; the roof and stained glass windows were also of royal quality.
  This weekend bonanza got off to a flying start when the guests were welcomed in the royal traditional style, garlanded and saluted by elephants.
  When we arrived at the club we got somewhat of a royal welcome and were ushered inside to a table set for six.
  Certainly there was a royal quality to the servings - I struggled to finish them.
  The people of Tory Island and their King were treated to a royal welcome in Monasterevin last weekend.
  The wanderer received a royal welcome in Santa Barbara from his mother-in-law and such brothers- and sisters-in-law as were about.
  His visit had been a big media event in the Gulf too and he was accorded a royal welcome at the Dubai airport.
  Synonyms
  excellent, fine, marvellous, magnificent, splendid, superb, wonderful, first-rate, first-class
4. 1.4British informal Unmitigated; extreme.
  he might turn out to be a royal pain
  Example sentencesExamples
  You know, algebra was a royal pain, literature was kind of boring, world history was alright.
  Updating may be a snap with a cable modem, but it's a royal pain with even the fastest dial-up connection.
  Now even the Queen herself has seen fit to give the London media a right royal ticking off.
  A right royal rumpus has erupted over York's Golden Jubilee Rugby League Festival after a team from Oxford tried once again to muscle in on the event.
  Justin was being a royal pain, so I took out a restraining order on him along about the end of August.
  He was a royal pain to the nurses because he bossed them around just like he did his employees.
  The princess wants to run away, much to the King and Queen's concern, and only our hero can prevent a right royal row.
  It was Richard's way of celebrating a right royal event - a half century of trading.
  For me, this was such an exciting story and a subject that's really never gotten the real royal cinematic treatment.
  Now to some that might sound like a right royal waste of money, but when you stop to think about how much said chair will be used the cost is much easier to justify.
  A right royal welcome was extended to war veteran Reg Samways when he returned to Norway 63 years after playing his part in the rescue of King Haakon.
  Then there was the fact that his supervisor, Arthur Jones, was a royal pain.
  2003 will go down in stock-market history as a right royal roller coaster of a year!
  I'm all for getting out of my ill-lit, unpleasantly fragrant apartment, but going to the mall can be a royal pain.
  He may crave the role of honest voice in the wilderness, but what really pushes North's buttons is giving his old allies in the green movement a right royal kicking.
  Last Tuesday her dedication and hard work received a right royal accolade.
  Puppies are a royal pain, because they chew everything and you have to potty train them.
  Until I discovered the website, my finances were in a right royal mess, and being in the red was something that happened almost every month.
  This was somewhat surprising; usually it was a royal pain to get him to drive me anywhere.
  I've worked with these a lot, and they're a royal pain.
  This accident, sickness and unemployment cover is a right royal rip-off, as this article reveals!
  Staff and residents at an Ilkley nursing home are preparing a right royal welcome for a special visitor to the town.
  They prepared a right royal welcome for her at Manchester - but she surprised them by arriving back in Rochdale unannounced to get the champagne corks popping.
  Not a great thing for a journalist hoping for a right royal row to report.
  Synonyms
  complete, utter, total, real, absolute, thorough, veritable

nounˈrɔɪ(ə)lˈroi(ə)l

1informal A member of a royal family, especially in England.
Example sentencesExamples
- Some 35 members of the Royal Family and 25 foreign royals were there to pay a personal tribute.
- At least seven prime ministers including Italy's Silvio Berlusconi are also expected to attend as are royals Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Britain's Prince Edward, among others.
- Although the late Queen Mother remains her favourite royal, she has met Prince Charles numerous times.
- Mums are queuing up to get their hands on a classically designed pram favoured by royals and celebrities.
- Numerous monarchs and other royals are buried there as well.
- Among the guests who will attend the blessing, along with the senior British royals, foreign royals, dignitaries and a handful of politicians, will be a host of friends and celebrities.
- One of the last great houses to be built in Cheshire is Henbury Hall, commissioned by Sebastian de Ferranti, the retired industrialist and friend of Prince Charles and other royals.
- It is traditionally a winter retreat for royals such as Prince Michael of Kent and King Juan Carlos of Spain, but it is fast becoming a playground for nouveau riche Russians.
- The princess is the third royal to visit Saskatchewan in the last three years.
- Church officials were anxious to point out that the Anglican leader entertains royals, visiting heads of state, top politicians and secular and religious leaders from home and abroad.
- We also took a turn around some of the state rooms, sat on one of the royal sofas, and viewed vast collections of porcelain and pictures of Queen Victoria and her family and long-dead royals whose names we didn't recognise.
- At 11.10 am Royal Family members, foreign royals and members of the Queen Mother's family will be seated.
- Political leaders saddened by Princess Margaret's death have paid tribute to the popular royal.
- Like most royals, Ranjit Singh is a connoisseur of the arts.
- At the Abbey, members of the Royal Family, foreign royals, members of the Bowes Lyon family and other blood relatives move in procession to their seats.
- He made a name for himself painting dogs and was commissioned to paint for various royals including King Edward VII and King George VI.
- There will be a grand banquet Friday that is expected to be attended by thousands of royals and leaders from all over the world.
- We don't live in a Renaissance city-state, or a monarchy where the royals and the aristocrats order up lots of art, portraits, and public buildings, and are patrons of writers.
Synonyms
monarch, sovereign, king, queen, emperor, empress, tsar, tsarina, prince, princess, potentate, head of state, leader, chief, ruler, lord, overlord
2
short for royal sail or royal mast
3A paper size, now standardized at 636 × 480 mm.
1. 3.1 A book size, now standardized at 234 × 156 mm.
2. 3.2 A book size, now standardized at 312 × 237 mm.

Phrases

royal road to

A way of attaining or reaching something without trouble.
捷径，快捷方式
there is no royal road to teaching
教无捷径。
Example sentencesExamples
- It has become orthodoxy in most texts on politics and political science that something called ‘economic liberalisation’ is the royal road to international acceptability.
- The therapist relied on the client's knowledgeability as the royal road to understanding.
- This view exemplifies the general scholarly preoccupation with context - historical, political, cultural and social - as the royal road to the successful interpretation of folklore.
- Students are thus invited to follow the royal road into neoclassical economics and, in the process, forced to pay a substantial toll to the authors of the chosen textbook.
- The privatization of large banks and industries from the 1980s, though designed to limit the influence of the state bourgeoisie, actually increased pantouflage, as state service remained the royal road to these lucrative posts.
- And superior productivity is, of course, the royal road to higher wages.
- Variation and selection is the royal road to adaptive fitness.
- I can start, I suppose, by attacking the notion that liberalism or secularism - or even nihilism, for that matter - is the royal road to totalitarianism.
- With nations, as with individuals, dependency is not the royal road to prosperity.
- There is no doubt that Ben is right and the royal road to fame often involves poverty, hard work and a long training in one's art or craft.
- Freud famously said that dreams were the royal road to the unconscious; perhaps the movies offer another way to get there.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French roial, from Latin regalis ‘regal’.

词汇	royal
释义	Definition of royal in English: royal adjective ˈrɔɪəlˈrɔɪ(ə)l 1Having the status of a king or queen or a member of their family. 国王的；女王的；王室的；王族的 contributors included members of the royal family 捐献者中有王室成员。 Example sentencesExamples Boromo Trailokanat resolved the question of succession by ranking every member of the royal family in relation to the reigning monarch. He was the first member of the royal family to visit Siberia, where his encounter with the lives of convicts and exiles led to a certain improvement in their lot after he became tsar. The Queen is not the only member of the royal family to have personal flags. It is hoped a visit by a member of the royal family will take place on June 18. The members of the royal family who are in line to the throne cannot take the chances that our children and grandchildren would take. Factions formed around the heir to the throne and other members of the royal family as well as in the entourage of ministers. As well as the Queen Mother, the queen and her husband Prince Philip, most other members of the royal family are due to attend the funeral. Some 25 British Royals, as well as members of foreign royal families, were in attendance. The fraud was discovered after two diamonds sold for $15 million to members of the Saudi royal family. Prince Fahd was the third member of the Saudi royal family to die in just over a week. The dramatic scenery has also attracted famous visitors over the years, including composer Edvard Grieg and members of Norway's royal family. There wasn't a stiffness or an awkwardness, which there can be sometimes with other members of the royal family because you're so aware of protocol. Altogether, 36 members of the royal family attended, including the princes William and Harry. State honors, generally reserved for members of the Nepalese royal family, were given to Babu Chhiri, who established at least two climbing records. The play is about Anastasia Romanov, a member of the Russian royal family, after the fall of the Russian monarchy in 1918. Legal experts said the couple could not marry in a civil ceremony in England because the 1836 Marriage Act bars members of the royal family from doing so. After the service, blessing and reception the royal couple have spent this week on honeymoon on the Balmoral estate in Scotland. In addition to all this, they've had several members of the royal family, government officials and business leaders visiting from Thailand. Only recently, he has been busy working on a large order for a member of the royal family, although a confidentiality clause prevents him from naming the client. The royal couple greeted villagers after attending a church service this morning. Synonyms regal, monarchal, monarchial, monarchical, sovereign, kingly, queenly, princely, majestic 1.1 Belonging to, carried out, or exercised by a king or queen. （属于）国王的；（属于）女王的 the royal palace 王宫。 the coalition obtained royal approval for the appointment 联合政府内阁成员的任命得到了国王的批准。 Example sentencesExamples The magnificence of royal palaces, no matter how richly appointed, cannot take away the disappointment of a bad performance. Numerous imperial and royal palaces survived into the early Middle Ages and were restored or rebuilt. The Duke of Edinburgh was in Rochdale on Friday 19 November 1976 to give the royal seal of approval to the town's new shopping centre and magistrates court. Largely amassed since the reign of Charles I, the Royal Collection is housed at The Queen's official and private residences and the historic royal palaces. It was his business to depict palaces and royal chapels, but he did not hesitate to show them without majesty - under scaffolds or being repaired. Six times the size of the royal residence of the Maharaja of Jaipur, the new extension has grand plans to open its doors to welcome as many people as it can. Near the end of his reign, King Behanzin ordered his troops to burn the royal palaces rather than see them fall into French hands. I can see the great royal palace of Mandalay, shimmering across the moat. In an age when royal patronage was a precarious and unreliable commodity, writing for the theatre provided a measure of financial security for anyone prepared to submit to its rigours. Stuart and Rosemary Robson have translated and edited eighteen essays about Javanese royal palaces in the late colonial period. By lending large sums to Henry III and Edward I, they obtained royal patronage and protection. By 1699 he was again under royal patronage working for William III and Mary at Hampton Court. Castles, stately homes and royal palaces comprise nine per cent of all listed buildings and industrial heritage accounts for five per cent. Prince Charles gave the royal seal of approval to the appeal launched by St John's Church in Devizes by attending a fundraising concert. The Restoration brought back the Stuarts but not intensive royal patronage. West of the city there was also much activity around Westminster where an abbey existed from at least the 8th century and which later became the focus for a royal palace and the seat of power. Prince Andrew of Greece was reburied in the royal Summer Palace at Tatoi in Athens. Otley's new £15m hospital was given the royal seal of approval when it was officially opened by Princess Anne. From here you can walk to Amalienborg, the royal palace, the impressive buildings of which are patrolled by guards in busbies. In 1830, it was granted royal patronage by Queen Victoria and became the Manchester Royal Infirmary. Synonyms regal, kingly, queenly, kinglike, queenlike, princely sovereign, monarchical 1.2 In the service or under the patronage of a king or queen. 服侍国王（或女王）的，为王室服务的；得到国王（或女王）恩赐的 a royal maid 一个王室侍女。 Example sentencesExamples When a guest at a ball for royal staff at Buckingham Palace the Duke asked her what she thought of the food. The most famous traditional costumes in England are the red uniforms and high black hats worn by the royal guard at Buckingham Palace. The TV chef once worked as a royal footman at Buckingham Palace, where he noted that the Queen hated food to be thrown away. The production company yesterday handed over tapes of footage it had shot in St Andrews to Buckingham Palace for royal officials to examine. When Queen Hatsheput moved her court to Punt, an artist of the time did a wall painting which still exists, showing royal attendants carrying sheaves of herbs. His wife, he said, understood the pressures of a life as a royal butler because she was the Duke of Edinburgh's maid for 16 years. She had been a royal Maid of Honour from 1853 and her marriage had brought her closer to the throne. 1.3 Of a quality or size suitable for a king or queen; splendid. 适于国王（或女王）的；盛大的；高贵的；豪华的；庄严的；极好的；极大的 she received a royal welcome Example sentencesExamples The wanderer received a royal welcome in Santa Barbara from his mother-in-law and such brothers- and sisters-in-law as were about. When we arrived at the club we got somewhat of a royal welcome and were ushered inside to a table set for six. Certainly there was a royal quality to the servings - I struggled to finish them. The people of Tory Island and their King were treated to a royal welcome in Monasterevin last weekend. His visit had been a big media event in the Gulf too and he was accorded a royal welcome at the Dubai airport. He ensured there were Tudor roses on the gowns of the staff and on the Tudor coloured counterpanes of the beds; the roof and stained glass windows were also of royal quality. There is more to Rajasthan than just its royal splendour or amazing camel rides through never-ending sand dunes. Fans, teachers and fellow students gave him a royal welcome as he returned for the start of the final year of his sports diploma at the college. This weekend bonanza got off to a flying start when the guests were welcomed in the royal traditional style, garlanded and saluted by elephants. Synonyms excellent, fine, marvellous, magnificent, splendid, superb, wonderful, first-rate, first-class informal fantastic, terrific, great, tremendous, grand 1.4British informal attributive Real; utter (used for emphasis) 〈英，非正式〉用于加重语气真正的；完全的 she's a right royal pain in the behind 她屁股真的很痛。 Example sentencesExamples Not a great thing for a journalist hoping for a right royal row to report. Justin was being a royal pain, so I took out a restraining order on him along about the end of August. Puppies are a royal pain, because they chew everything and you have to potty train them. A right royal welcome was extended to war veteran Reg Samways when he returned to Norway 63 years after playing his part in the rescue of King Haakon. For me, this was such an exciting story and a subject that's really never gotten the real royal cinematic treatment. Until I discovered the website, my finances were in a right royal mess, and being in the red was something that happened almost every month. Now even the Queen herself has seen fit to give the London media a right royal ticking off. You know, algebra was a royal pain, literature was kind of boring, world history was alright. I've worked with these a lot, and they're a royal pain. Staff and residents at an Ilkley nursing home are preparing a right royal welcome for a special visitor to the town. The princess wants to run away, much to the King and Queen's concern, and only our hero can prevent a right royal row. Then there was the fact that his supervisor, Arthur Jones, was a royal pain. He was a royal pain to the nurses because he bossed them around just like he did his employees. Now to some that might sound like a right royal waste of money, but when you stop to think about how much said chair will be used the cost is much easier to justify. He may crave the role of honest voice in the wilderness, but what really pushes North's buttons is giving his old allies in the green movement a right royal kicking. This accident, sickness and unemployment cover is a right royal rip-off, as this article reveals! This was somewhat surprising; usually it was a royal pain to get him to drive me anywhere. I'm all for getting out of my ill-lit, unpleasantly fragrant apartment, but going to the mall can be a royal pain. Last Tuesday her dedication and hard work received a right royal accolade. It was Richard's way of celebrating a right royal event - a half century of trading. 2003 will go down in stock-market history as a right royal roller coaster of a year! Updating may be a snap with a cable modem, but it's a royal pain with even the fastest dial-up connection. They prepared a right royal welcome for her at Manchester - but she surprised them by arriving back in Rochdale unannounced to get the champagne corks popping. A right royal rumpus has erupted over York's Golden Jubilee Rugby League Festival after a team from Oxford tried once again to muscle in on the event. Synonyms complete, utter, total, real, absolute, thorough, veritable informal flaming, damn, damned, blasted, blessed, confounded British informal proper, right, flipping, blinking, blooming, bloody, bleeding, effing, chuffing Australian/New Zealand informal plurry British informal, dated bally, ruddy vulgar slang fucking, frigging noun ˈrɔɪəlˈrɔɪ(ə)l 1informal A member of the royal family. 〈非正式〉王室成员 the royals are coming under the TV microscope Example sentencesExamples At the Abbey, members of the Royal Family, foreign royals, members of the Bowes Lyon family and other blood relatives move in procession to their seats. At least seven prime ministers including Italy's Silvio Berlusconi are also expected to attend as are royals Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Britain's Prince Edward, among others. He made a name for himself painting dogs and was commissioned to paint for various royals including King Edward VII and King George VI. We also took a turn around some of the state rooms, sat on one of the royal sofas, and viewed vast collections of porcelain and pictures of Queen Victoria and her family and long-dead royals whose names we didn't recognise. Church officials were anxious to point out that the Anglican leader entertains royals, visiting heads of state, top politicians and secular and religious leaders from home and abroad. Although the late Queen Mother remains her favourite royal, she has met Prince Charles numerous times. It is traditionally a winter retreat for royals such as Prince Michael of Kent and King Juan Carlos of Spain, but it is fast becoming a playground for nouveau riche Russians. Political leaders saddened by Princess Margaret's death have paid tribute to the popular royal. There will be a grand banquet Friday that is expected to be attended by thousands of royals and leaders from all over the world. Some 35 members of the Royal Family and 25 foreign royals were there to pay a personal tribute. We don't live in a Renaissance city-state, or a monarchy where the royals and the aristocrats order up lots of art, portraits, and public buildings, and are patrons of writers. Among the guests who will attend the blessing, along with the senior British royals, foreign royals, dignitaries and a handful of politicians, will be a host of friends and celebrities. At 11.10 am Royal Family members, foreign royals and members of the Queen Mother's family will be seated. Like most royals, Ranjit Singh is a connoisseur of the arts. Mums are queuing up to get their hands on a classically designed pram favoured by royals and celebrities. Numerous monarchs and other royals are buried there as well. The princess is the third royal to visit Saskatchewan in the last three years. One of the last great houses to be built in Cheshire is Henbury Hall, commissioned by Sebastian de Ferranti, the retired industrialist and friend of Prince Charles and other royals. Synonyms monarch, sovereign, king, queen, emperor, empress, tsar, tsarina, prince, princess, potentate, head of state, leader, chief, ruler, lord, overlord 2 short for royal sail or royal mast 3 short for royal stag 4mass noun A paper size, 636 × 480 mm. 4.1 A book size, 234 × 156 mm. 八开本，八开纸（234 × 156 mm） 4.2 A book size, 312 × 237 mm. 四开本（312 × 237 mm） 5Bell-ringing A system of change-ringing using ten bells. 〔鸣钟术〕敲奉十口钟的变换响 Phrases royal road to A way of attaining or reaching something without trouble. 捷径，快捷方式 there is no royal road to teaching 教无捷径。 Example sentencesExamples I can start, I suppose, by attacking the notion that liberalism or secularism - or even nihilism, for that matter - is the royal road to totalitarianism. Variation and selection is the royal road to adaptive fitness. There is no doubt that Ben is right and the royal road to fame often involves poverty, hard work and a long training in one's art or craft. Freud famously said that dreams were the royal road to the unconscious; perhaps the movies offer another way to get there. This view exemplifies the general scholarly preoccupation with context - historical, political, cultural and social - as the royal road to the successful interpretation of folklore. The privatization of large banks and industries from the 1980s, though designed to limit the influence of the state bourgeoisie, actually increased pantouflage, as state service remained the royal road to these lucrative posts. And superior productivity is, of course, the royal road to higher wages. The therapist relied on the client's knowledgeability as the royal road to understanding. With nations, as with individuals, dependency is not the royal road to prosperity. It has become orthodoxy in most texts on politics and political science that something called ‘economic liberalisation’ is the royal road to international acceptability. Students are thus invited to follow the royal road into neoclassical economics and, in the process, forced to pay a substantial toll to the authors of the chosen textbook. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French roial, from Latin regalis 'regal'. rule from Middle English: We think of rules as giving us lines to follow, and the word goes back to Latin regula ‘straight stick’, and beyond that to regere ‘to rule’, the source of regency and royal (Late Middle English). To rule the roost is to be in complete control. The original form of the phrase was rule the roast, from the end of the 15th century, which may imply that it referred to the most important person at a banquet or feast. Roast changed to roost in the 18th century when people started thinking about a cockerel asserting itself over the other roosting birds in the farmyard. The rule in run the rule over, ‘to examine quickly’, is a measuring stick or ruler. It has the same meaning in rule of thumb, ‘a broadly accurate guide based on practice rather than theory’. This expression, recorded from 1692, is probably from the ancient use of parts of the body, such as the foot and the hand, as units of measurement. The first joint of a man's thumb is about an inch long, and so is useful for making rough measurements when you have mislaid your ruler. See also rail Rhymes loyal, viceroyal adj.1 phr. Definition of royal in US English: royal adjectiveˈrɔɪ(ə)lˈroi(ə)l 1Having the status of a king or queen or a member of their family. 国王的；女王的；王室的；王族的 contributors included members of the royal family 捐献者中有王室成员。 Example sentencesExamples The fraud was discovered after two diamonds sold for $15 million to members of the Saudi royal family. Altogether, 36 members of the royal family attended, including the princes William and Harry. The play is about Anastasia Romanov, a member of the Russian royal family, after the fall of the Russian monarchy in 1918. Only recently, he has been busy working on a large order for a member of the royal family, although a confidentiality clause prevents him from naming the client. Boromo Trailokanat resolved the question of succession by ranking every member of the royal family in relation to the reigning monarch. The Queen is not the only member of the royal family to have personal flags. After the service, blessing and reception the royal couple have spent this week on honeymoon on the Balmoral estate in Scotland. The royal couple greeted villagers after attending a church service this morning. In addition to all this, they've had several members of the royal family, government officials and business leaders visiting from Thailand. Factions formed around the heir to the throne and other members of the royal family as well as in the entourage of ministers. Legal experts said the couple could not marry in a civil ceremony in England because the 1836 Marriage Act bars members of the royal family from doing so. Some 25 British Royals, as well as members of foreign royal families, were in attendance. State honors, generally reserved for members of the Nepalese royal family, were given to Babu Chhiri, who established at least two climbing records. It is hoped a visit by a member of the royal family will take place on June 18. The members of the royal family who are in line to the throne cannot take the chances that our children and grandchildren would take. The dramatic scenery has also attracted famous visitors over the years, including composer Edvard Grieg and members of Norway's royal family. He was the first member of the royal family to visit Siberia, where his encounter with the lives of convicts and exiles led to a certain improvement in their lot after he became tsar. There wasn't a stiffness or an awkwardness, which there can be sometimes with other members of the royal family because you're so aware of protocol. Prince Fahd was the third member of the Saudi royal family to die in just over a week. As well as the Queen Mother, the queen and her husband Prince Philip, most other members of the royal family are due to attend the funeral. Synonyms regal, monarchal, monarchial, monarchical, sovereign, kingly, queenly, princely, majestic 1.1 Belonging to, carried out, or exercised by a king or queen. （属于）国王的；（属于）女王的 the royal palace 王宫。 the coalition obtained royal approval for the appointment 联合政府内阁成员的任命得到了国王的批准。 Example sentencesExamples The Duke of Edinburgh was in Rochdale on Friday 19 November 1976 to give the royal seal of approval to the town's new shopping centre and magistrates court. It was his business to depict palaces and royal chapels, but he did not hesitate to show them without majesty - under scaffolds or being repaired. By 1699 he was again under royal patronage working for William III and Mary at Hampton Court. Otley's new £15m hospital was given the royal seal of approval when it was officially opened by Princess Anne. In an age when royal patronage was a precarious and unreliable commodity, writing for the theatre provided a measure of financial security for anyone prepared to submit to its rigours. West of the city there was also much activity around Westminster where an abbey existed from at least the 8th century and which later became the focus for a royal palace and the seat of power. From here you can walk to Amalienborg, the royal palace, the impressive buildings of which are patrolled by guards in busbies. Stuart and Rosemary Robson have translated and edited eighteen essays about Javanese royal palaces in the late colonial period. Numerous imperial and royal palaces survived into the early Middle Ages and were restored or rebuilt. The magnificence of royal palaces, no matter how richly appointed, cannot take away the disappointment of a bad performance. In 1830, it was granted royal patronage by Queen Victoria and became the Manchester Royal Infirmary. Prince Charles gave the royal seal of approval to the appeal launched by St John's Church in Devizes by attending a fundraising concert. Castles, stately homes and royal palaces comprise nine per cent of all listed buildings and industrial heritage accounts for five per cent. Prince Andrew of Greece was reburied in the royal Summer Palace at Tatoi in Athens. The Restoration brought back the Stuarts but not intensive royal patronage. By lending large sums to Henry III and Edward I, they obtained royal patronage and protection. Six times the size of the royal residence of the Maharaja of Jaipur, the new extension has grand plans to open its doors to welcome as many people as it can. I can see the great royal palace of Mandalay, shimmering across the moat. Near the end of his reign, King Behanzin ordered his troops to burn the royal palaces rather than see them fall into French hands. Largely amassed since the reign of Charles I, the Royal Collection is housed at The Queen's official and private residences and the historic royal palaces. Synonyms regal, kingly, queenly, kinglike, queenlike, princely 1.2attributive In the service or under the patronage of a king or queen. 服侍国王（或女王）的，为王室服务的；得到国王（或女王）恩赐的 a royal maid 一个王室侍女。 Example sentencesExamples The most famous traditional costumes in England are the red uniforms and high black hats worn by the royal guard at Buckingham Palace. The production company yesterday handed over tapes of footage it had shot in St Andrews to Buckingham Palace for royal officials to examine. When a guest at a ball for royal staff at Buckingham Palace the Duke asked her what she thought of the food. She had been a royal Maid of Honour from 1853 and her marriage had brought her closer to the throne. When Queen Hatsheput moved her court to Punt, an artist of the time did a wall painting which still exists, showing royal attendants carrying sheaves of herbs. His wife, he said, understood the pressures of a life as a royal butler because she was the Duke of Edinburgh's maid for 16 years. The TV chef once worked as a royal footman at Buckingham Palace, where he noted that the Queen hated food to be thrown away. 1.3attributive Of a quality or size suitable for a king or queen; splendid. 适于国王（或女王）的；盛大的；高贵的；豪华的；庄严的；极好的；极大的 a royal fortune 一大笔财富。 Example sentencesExamples Fans, teachers and fellow students gave him a royal welcome as he returned for the start of the final year of his sports diploma at the college. There is more to Rajasthan than just its royal splendour or amazing camel rides through never-ending sand dunes. He ensured there were Tudor roses on the gowns of the staff and on the Tudor coloured counterpanes of the beds; the roof and stained glass windows were also of royal quality. This weekend bonanza got off to a flying start when the guests were welcomed in the royal traditional style, garlanded and saluted by elephants. When we arrived at the club we got somewhat of a royal welcome and were ushered inside to a table set for six. Certainly there was a royal quality to the servings - I struggled to finish them. The people of Tory Island and their King were treated to a royal welcome in Monasterevin last weekend. The wanderer received a royal welcome in Santa Barbara from his mother-in-law and such brothers- and sisters-in-law as were about. His visit had been a big media event in the Gulf too and he was accorded a royal welcome at the Dubai airport. Synonyms excellent, fine, marvellous, magnificent, splendid, superb, wonderful, first-rate, first-class 1.4British informal Unmitigated; extreme. he might turn out to be a royal pain Example sentencesExamples You know, algebra was a royal pain, literature was kind of boring, world history was alright. Updating may be a snap with a cable modem, but it's a royal pain with even the fastest dial-up connection. Now even the Queen herself has seen fit to give the London media a right royal ticking off. A right royal rumpus has erupted over York's Golden Jubilee Rugby League Festival after a team from Oxford tried once again to muscle in on the event. Justin was being a royal pain, so I took out a restraining order on him along about the end of August. He was a royal pain to the nurses because he bossed them around just like he did his employees. The princess wants to run away, much to the King and Queen's concern, and only our hero can prevent a right royal row. It was Richard's way of celebrating a right royal event - a half century of trading. For me, this was such an exciting story and a subject that's really never gotten the real royal cinematic treatment. Now to some that might sound like a right royal waste of money, but when you stop to think about how much said chair will be used the cost is much easier to justify. A right royal welcome was extended to war veteran Reg Samways when he returned to Norway 63 years after playing his part in the rescue of King Haakon. Then there was the fact that his supervisor, Arthur Jones, was a royal pain. 2003 will go down in stock-market history as a right royal roller coaster of a year! I'm all for getting out of my ill-lit, unpleasantly fragrant apartment, but going to the mall can be a royal pain. He may crave the role of honest voice in the wilderness, but what really pushes North's buttons is giving his old allies in the green movement a right royal kicking. Last Tuesday her dedication and hard work received a right royal accolade. Puppies are a royal pain, because they chew everything and you have to potty train them. Until I discovered the website, my finances were in a right royal mess, and being in the red was something that happened almost every month. This was somewhat surprising; usually it was a royal pain to get him to drive me anywhere. I've worked with these a lot, and they're a royal pain. This accident, sickness and unemployment cover is a right royal rip-off, as this article reveals! Staff and residents at an Ilkley nursing home are preparing a right royal welcome for a special visitor to the town. They prepared a right royal welcome for her at Manchester - but she surprised them by arriving back in Rochdale unannounced to get the champagne corks popping. Not a great thing for a journalist hoping for a right royal row to report. Synonyms complete, utter, total, real, absolute, thorough, veritable nounˈrɔɪ(ə)lˈroi(ə)l 1informal A member of a royal family, especially in England. Example sentencesExamples Some 35 members of the Royal Family and 25 foreign royals were there to pay a personal tribute. At least seven prime ministers including Italy's Silvio Berlusconi are also expected to attend as are royals Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Britain's Prince Edward, among others. Although the late Queen Mother remains her favourite royal, she has met Prince Charles numerous times. Mums are queuing up to get their hands on a classically designed pram favoured by royals and celebrities. Numerous monarchs and other royals are buried there as well. Among the guests who will attend the blessing, along with the senior British royals, foreign royals, dignitaries and a handful of politicians, will be a host of friends and celebrities. One of the last great houses to be built in Cheshire is Henbury Hall, commissioned by Sebastian de Ferranti, the retired industrialist and friend of Prince Charles and other royals. It is traditionally a winter retreat for royals such as Prince Michael of Kent and King Juan Carlos of Spain, but it is fast becoming a playground for nouveau riche Russians. The princess is the third royal to visit Saskatchewan in the last three years. Church officials were anxious to point out that the Anglican leader entertains royals, visiting heads of state, top politicians and secular and religious leaders from home and abroad. We also took a turn around some of the state rooms, sat on one of the royal sofas, and viewed vast collections of porcelain and pictures of Queen Victoria and her family and long-dead royals whose names we didn't recognise. At 11.10 am Royal Family members, foreign royals and members of the Queen Mother's family will be seated. Political leaders saddened by Princess Margaret's death have paid tribute to the popular royal. Like most royals, Ranjit Singh is a connoisseur of the arts. At the Abbey, members of the Royal Family, foreign royals, members of the Bowes Lyon family and other blood relatives move in procession to their seats. He made a name for himself painting dogs and was commissioned to paint for various royals including King Edward VII and King George VI. There will be a grand banquet Friday that is expected to be attended by thousands of royals and leaders from all over the world. We don't live in a Renaissance city-state, or a monarchy where the royals and the aristocrats order up lots of art, portraits, and public buildings, and are patrons of writers. Synonyms monarch, sovereign, king, queen, emperor, empress, tsar, tsarina, prince, princess, potentate, head of state, leader, chief, ruler, lord, overlord 2 short for royal sail or royal mast 3A paper size, now standardized at 636 × 480 mm. 3.1 A book size, now standardized at 234 × 156 mm. 3.2 A book size, now standardized at 312 × 237 mm. Phrases royal road to A way of attaining or reaching something without trouble. 捷径，快捷方式 there is no royal road to teaching 教无捷径。 Example sentencesExamples It has become orthodoxy in most texts on politics and political science that something called ‘economic liberalisation’ is the royal road to international acceptability. The therapist relied on the client's knowledgeability as the royal road to understanding. This view exemplifies the general scholarly preoccupation with context - historical, political, cultural and social - as the royal road to the successful interpretation of folklore. Students are thus invited to follow the royal road into neoclassical economics and, in the process, forced to pay a substantial toll to the authors of the chosen textbook. The privatization of large banks and industries from the 1980s, though designed to limit the influence of the state bourgeoisie, actually increased pantouflage, as state service remained the royal road to these lucrative posts. And superior productivity is, of course, the royal road to higher wages. Variation and selection is the royal road to adaptive fitness. I can start, I suppose, by attacking the notion that liberalism or secularism - or even nihilism, for that matter - is the royal road to totalitarianism. With nations, as with individuals, dependency is not the royal road to prosperity. There is no doubt that Ben is right and the royal road to fame often involves poverty, hard work and a long training in one's art or craft. Freud famously said that dreams were the royal road to the unconscious; perhaps the movies offer another way to get there. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French roial, from Latin regalis ‘regal’. adj.1 phr.
随便看	porcelain jasper porcelain kiln porcelain lace porcelain-like porcelainlike porcelainous porcelain oven porcelain paper porcelains porcelains porcelain shell porcelain tooth porcelain tower porcelaneous porcelanic porcelanite porcelanize porcelanized porcellainous porcellaneous porcellaneous porcellanic porcellanised porcellanite porcellanitic