Potentate

(a.) One who is potent; one who possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign, or monarch.

巴兹尔录入

• Mr Wegg, she is worthy of being loved by a Potentate! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The letter, then, is from a certain foreign potentate who has been ruffled by some recent Colonial developments of this country. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It is then the interest of the enemies of this potentate to secure and publish this letter, so as to make a breach between his country and ours? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I say 'Mighty potentate, here IS my homage! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The letter--for it was a letter from a foreign potentate--was received six days ago. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I come down here, for instance, and I find a mighty potentate exacting homage. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• An Italian family ruled as Dukes of Naxos, another line governed Seriphos, but those potentates were somewhere about the fifteenth century. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Legree, like some potentates we read of in history, governed his plantation by a sort of resolution of forces. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I am told that the old masters had to do these shameful things for bread, the princes and potentates being the only patrons of art. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

校对:苏西