| 单词 | gentleman scholar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgentleman scholar gentleman scholar n. (a) a financially independent man who pursues academic study for leisure, typically without having a salaried attachment to an academic institution (now historical); (b) a man who is well-mannered and well-educated; an admirable, gentlemanly man. ΚΠ 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 66 (title of section) Euphues to the Gentlemen schollers in Athens. 1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 27 Sept. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1229 Those who have read the most Latin..write the worst; and this distinguishes the Latin of a gentleman scholar from that of a pedant. 1976 Current Anthropol. 17 253/2 Given a choice between the competent gentleman-scholar ethnographers and the mad scientism of the quantifiers and objectifiers. 2007 Times 6 Feb. 21/3 The old-school gentleman scholar Dr Lawrence Blair dives into largely unexplored waters off Borneo. 2018 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 25 Apr. (HBG section) 1 [He] called Shultz a ‘true gentleman scholar, someone who is professional and personable to all’. < as lemmas |
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