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单词 squire
释义
squire
noun[C]
uk
/skwaɪər/us
/skwaɪr/
in the past inEngland, a man whoownedmost of thelandaround avillage
（旧时英格兰的）乡绅，大地主
UKold-fashionedinformal
used as afriendlyformofaddressby one man to another who might be of ahighersocialclass:
（用作男子间友好的称呼语，对方的社会地位可能高于自己）先生
"I don'tknowif all myluggageis going tofitin the back of thetaxi." "Don'tworry, squire, I'll get it in."“我不知道是不是所有的行李都能放进出租车的后备箱里。”“请放心，先生，我会放进去的。”
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squire
verb[T+ adv/prep]
formal
uk
/skwaɪər/us
/skwaɪr/
to take someoneplaces:
送（某人）到各处去
Skinner uses theplaneto squire aroundbureaucrats.斯金纳用飞机接送官员。
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  • bring
  • bringsomeone/somethingalong
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  • come
  • come along
  • convoy
  • direct
  • docent
  • escort
  • guide
  • lead
  • march
  • referral
  • shepherd
  • showsomeonearound (something)
  • showsomeoneoversomething
  • showsomeoneround(something)
  • steer
  • stick tosomeonelike glueidiom
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(Definition ofsquirefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

squire| American Dictionary

squire
noun[C]
old use
us
/skwɑɪər/

squirenoun[C](OWNER)

(in the past inEngland) a man whoownedmost of thelandaround avillage
squire
verb[Talways+ adv/prep]
fml
us
/skwɑɪər/

squireverb[T always + adv/prep](TAKE)

to take someoneplaces;escort:
Skinner uses theplaneto squire aroundbureaucrats.
(Definition ofsquirefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsquire

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Her mouth, slightly open, discloses her teeth, as the squire's son awkwardly, sullenly thrusts a handful of strawberries toward her.
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The squire's joke will demonstrate that the court, by virtue of its ironic detachment, can impose meaning on this world where the friar could not.
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Even so, the squire's son refuses to give him one name.
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The future squire's boyishness thus spills into "girlishness," and although he makes attempts at asserting independence, they are as feeble and lightly treated as those of a marriageable daughter.
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Of course, it was not just the community dynamics of squires, land agents, clergy, and village elites that determined local responses, but the size, landholding structure, and availability of employment.
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The purchase price was double the open market value of the house, thus making this trifling episode a talisman for the squire's eagerness to control all that he surveyed.
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There was a good deal of thesquireabout the father and son.
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The rents from the latter helped expand the textile business, and the successful clothier-landowner rarely deserted manufacturing for the life of a pettysquire.
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The younger son of the localsquire, he is a naturalist who collects specimens and contributes articles to scientific journals.
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The position of thesquireas the foundational figure of the community depends on the fatherson lineage and its exclusion of women.
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However, in order to capture the instability using numerical simulations, we need not provide the actual eigenfunctions for thesquiremode in the initial conditions.
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Squireinterpreted his solution as a jet emerging from a hole in a plane wall.
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The gentle patriarchy hinges on an affectionate "intercourse between thesquireand his son," neither of whom exercises his patriarchal authority.
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While a gentleman, he is only a smallsquirewith an income of eight hundred pounds a year.
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In the country, the rector was often hardly distinguishable in manners, dress, and accoutrements from the localsquire.
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