potentate

常见例句

双语例句

• I went not into the forest to seek a potentate; neither do I, at any future time, design a visit thither, with a view to gaining the favour of such personage.
  我到树林里去，绝不是去找什么有权势的人，而且在将来的任何时刻，我也没有去那儿拜访、谋求这样一个人欢心的意图。
• IN EUROPE in the 16th and 17th centuries Moctezuma II, the Aztec potentate who submitted to Cortés and his Spanish conquistadors, was a figure of exotic fascination.
  在16、17世纪的欧洲人看来，蒙特苏马（Moctezuma）二世，这位屈服于科尔特斯（Cortés）和西班牙殖民者的阿兹特克皇帝，是一个充满着异域风情的人物。
• I will, before being admitted to citizenship, renounce absolutely and forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty….
  在被接受成为公民前，我将宣布绝对并永远放弃对任何外国王子、统治者、政府、或君主的效忠和忠诚…

权威例句

• He looked younger than I'd expected, too young to be the potentate of Gardez.
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• Take the Latin American potentate who arrived in London in the 1820s seeking funds to exploit his country's resources.
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• First, during his visit to the White House last Tuesday, Obama treated Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu like a two-bit potentate.
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