(noun.) a chief officer or chief magistrate; 'the prefect of Paris police'.
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双语例句
To prove this experiment, he wrote, the Prefect Maritime and Admiral Villaret ordered a small Sloop of about 40 feet long to be anchored in the Road, on the 23rd of Thermidor. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
There were also sea-scorpions, the prefects of that early world. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.