The most successful monarchies strive to abandon or hide their old aristocratic ways.

最成功君主在力图抛弃或隐匿他们老套做派。

And aristocrats are people of high social rank.

是指处于较高社会阶层人。

Gared did not rise to the bait. He was an old man, past fifty, and he had seen the lordlings come and go. Dead is dead, he said. We have no business with the dead.

盖瑞并未中激将之计，年过他也算得上是个老人，这辈子看过太多子弟来来去去。" 死了就是死了，" 他说，" 咱们何必追寻死人。"

True cachet lay in the old and customary.

老派作风习惯体现了真正威望。

Mr Lloyd George is more concerned with feeding the population than rescuing the aristocracy.

比起拯救，劳合·乔治先生更关心百姓温饱问题。

International interest grew, and in 1894 a French aristocrat called Pierre de Coubertin hosted a congress at the Sorbonne University in Paris in order to suggest a new modern Olympic Games.

随后世界各地对奥运会感兴趣人来多。1894年，出身于法国皮埃尔·德·顾拜旦为了倡导新现代奥运会在巴黎大学举行了会议。

So, awkward questions were being asked about why the nobility and the clergy were tax-exempt, while the scarecrow poor were supposed to empty their pockets.

所以老大难问题又来了，为什么和神职人员就可以免税，而穷苦普通大众就得掏空腰包。

Freshman year, we spent our energy writing viscerally scribbled applications to social lords.

大一时候，我们把精力都花在了给社会申请书上。

The nobleman is a man of the royal family.

那是皇室成员。

In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw.

她脸上有着两种特征，一种是她母亲娇柔，来自法兰西血统海滨；一种是她父亲粗犷，来自浮华俗气爱尔兰人，这两种特征混在一起显得不太协调，但这张脸上尖尖下巴和四方牙床骨，是很引人注意。

So naturally, it would go to a court companion, such as, the son of a nobleman or a member of the gentry.

即国王贴身随从，比如之子或上流社会人。

This period was one of inter-elite rivalry, in which nobles sought to increase their influence by funding the construction of churches and other buildings.

这段时期，精英上层之间相互斗争盛行，试图通过资助建造教堂和其他建筑物来扩大其影响力。

Two years later, Coco began an affair with one of Etienne's friends, an English aristocrat and she would actually play them off of each other

两年后，可可与艾蒂安朋友、英国开始了一段感情，实际上她还会挑拨他们相争：they'd compete for her love by showering her with gifts and fulfilling her every wish.他们通过给她送礼物和满足她每一个愿望来争夺她爱。

Happy few. joke aside, its royalty，it's politicians. It's epicureans. One of the first sommelier I saw speaking about Louis Treize used to tell me an anecdote.

幸运少数。开玩笑啦。说真，喜欢干邑白兰地人包括、政治人物，还有享乐主义者。

Their signature dish was none other than Moon's fried potatoes or as the aristocrats would say potatoes served in the French manner.

他们招牌菜不是别，就是月亮上油炸土豆，或者是们说土豆是法国人餐饮方式。

Those flags identified a knight's rank, social class, land, or noble titles.

这些旗帜表明了一个骑士等级、社会阶层、土地或头衔。

The Salvatore name was practically royalty in this town. Until the war.

在大战之前，Salvatore家基本就是这个镇上皇亲了。

" But why, " asked Bovary, " does that gentleman persecute her" ?

" 为什么，" 包法利问道，" 这个要迫害这个少女？"

The camera adjusts three or four times as she talks, and on each occasion, she twitches momentarily, betraying tiny flashes of aristocratic irritation.

镜头在她说话时调整了三四次，每次她都会瞬间抽动，流露出微小式烦躁。

By the end of the 17th century, much of British aristocracy were enjoying the hot beverage.

17世纪后期，很多英国都爱上了喝茶。