英语词汇“grand old man”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

grand old man n. a venerable elderly man, a man respected for his long experience or foundational role in some field; spec. (a journalistic name for) any of several distinguished British politicians, esp. (chiefly with the) William Ewart Gladstone, British Prime Minister four times between 1868 and 1894 (abbreviated G.O.M.).

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1838 H. B. Wallace Stanley I. iii. 31 That grand old man, Lord Bacon, was wont when he rode in the country..to uncover his head.

1850 C. Brontë Let. 12 June in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) II. vi. 162 A sight of the Duke of Wellington at the Chapel Royal (he is a real grand old man).

1864 Bradford Observer 4 Aug. 4/5 Lord Palmerston,..this grand old man—the sole living link between England's heroic age and her commercial epoch.

1878 Huddersfield Daily Chron. 14 Mar. 3/6 (heading) Disraeli, the grand old man.

1878 Isle of Man Times 12 Oct. 4/6 Speaking of Mr Gladstone's great attainments as a scholar,..here we had this grand old man on board with us, who..was the accomplished master of no less than six languages.

1882 Manch. Guardian 26 Apr. 4/7 The devotion which Liberals show to their Chief, the ‘grand old man’, as..Sir Stafford Northcote had been pleased to call him.

1887 M. Arnold Kaiser Dead vii Since, 'gainst the classes, He heard, of late, the Grand Old Man Incite the masses.

1937 Life 13 Sept. 69/2 Grand old man of genetics (the science of heredity) is Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan of California Institute of Technology.

1968 Washington Post 11 Aug. g5 Richard Goldstein of the Village Voice, the grand old man of rock criticism,..wrote that style and not substance is the key to success for rock bands.

2002 A. N. Wilson Victorians (2003) xv. 405 Then the Grand Old Man would arrive, often in a carriage pulled by cheering Liberals.

单词	grand old man
释义	> as lemmas grand old man grand old man n. a venerable elderly man, a man respected for his long experience or foundational role in some field; spec. (a journalistic name for) any of several distinguished British politicians, esp. (chiefly with the) William Ewart Gladstone, British Prime Minister four times between 1868 and 1894 (abbreviated G.O.M.). ΚΠ 1838 H. B. Wallace Stanley I. iii. 31 That grand old man, Lord Bacon, was wont when he rode in the country..to uncover his head. 1850 C. Brontë Let. 12 June in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) II. vi. 162 A sight of the Duke of Wellington at the Chapel Royal (he is a real grand old man). 1864 Bradford Observer 4 Aug. 4/5 Lord Palmerston,..this grand old man—the sole living link between England's heroic age and her commercial epoch. 1878 Huddersfield Daily Chron. 14 Mar. 3/6 (heading) Disraeli, the grand old man. 1878 Isle of Man Times 12 Oct. 4/6 Speaking of Mr Gladstone's great attainments as a scholar,..here we had this grand old man on board with us, who..was the accomplished master of no less than six languages. 1882 Manch. Guardian 26 Apr. 4/7 The devotion which Liberals show to their Chief, the ‘grand old man’, as..Sir Stafford Northcote had been pleased to call him. 1887 M. Arnold Kaiser Dead vii Since, 'gainst the classes, He heard, of late, the Grand Old Man Incite the masses. 1937 Life 13 Sept. 69/2 Grand old man of genetics (the science of heredity) is Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan of California Institute of Technology. 1968 Washington Post 11 Aug. g5 Richard Goldstein of the Village Voice, the grand old man of rock criticism,..wrote that style and not substance is the key to success for rock bands. 2002 A. N. Wilson Victorians (2003) xv. 405 Then the Grand Old Man would arrive, often in a carriage pulled by cheering Liberals. extracted from grandadj.n.adv. < as lemmas
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