By  way of contrast, the correspondence of the gentry and common people of England in Shakespeare's  time were generally not preserved in this way.

相比之下，莎士比亚代英国士绅和平民的书信往来一般不会以这种方式保存下来。

The Cromwells were from the gentry class, the equivalent of the middle class in early modern times, while they were also one of the wealthiest families in the Huntingdon area.

克伦威尔家出身于士绅阶层，相于近代早期的中产阶级，同亨廷顿地区最富有的家之一。

" It would certainly be well if there were no gentry and the land belonged to us, of course, " Pavel replied, " but there's been no such order from the government" .

帕维尔回：“然，如果没有士绅，土地属于我们然很好，但政府没有这样的命令。”

In the late 1630s this eventually led a huge number of the Scottish lords, religious leaders and gentry to revolt against the crown, beginning a series of conflicts known as the Bishops Wars.

1630年代末，这最终导致大量苏格兰领主、宗教领袖和士绅反抗王权，引发了一系列被称为主教战争的冲突。

The sons of our gentry and wealthy commoners are mostly educated at these seminaries, and will any one pretend to assert, that the majority, making every allowance, come under the description of tolerable scholars?

我们士绅富庶的子弟大多在这些神学院接受教育，谁敢断言大多数人都算得上尚可的学者？

Both Vespasia's family  and the gens Flavia were equestrian families, the second highest class within Roman society, being equivalent to the gentry or knightly class in later times but below the patrician class, the  Roman aristocracy.

维斯帕西娅家和弗拉维亚氏都马术世家，罗马社会第二高阶层，相于后来的士绅或骑士阶层，但低于贵阶层即罗马贵。