| 单词 | eton man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasEton man a. Designating a present or former pupil of Eton College, as Eton boy, Eton man, etc. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [adjective] > pupil of specific school Eton1663 Wykehamical1844 Shirburnian1859 1663 J. Beale Let. 9 Nov. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) II. 203 When I was an Eton Scholar I fell very sicke. 1753 World 31 May 131 It means the highest mark of distinction that an Eton boy is capable of receiving. 1865 Trans. National Assoc. Promotion Social Sci. 1864 444 In thirteen years Eton men have won eight of these first-rate honours at Cambridge, and five similar ones at Oxford. 1883 American 6 333 Any average Eton boy could give points to His Holiness in the matter of Latin verses. 1926 C. Oman in F. J. C. Hearnshaw Polit. Princ. Some Notable Prime Ministers 19th Cent. ii. 16 He could appreciate a telling classical quotation, while observing that his own classics were those of an Eton boy in the Remove. 1967 E. A. Nordlinger Working-class Tories iii. 65 A sizeable proportion of pragmatists preferred the peer's son but not the Eton man. 1991 K. Tester Animals & Society v. 102 The parents of the Eton pupils believed that only they and their class were the representatives of human being in its purest form. 2011 J. F. Price Prince William vi. 98 A local pub popular with Eton students for generations. < as lemmas |
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