people of good social position, specifically the class of people next below the nobility in position and birth
社会地位高的人(专指仅次于贵族阶层的人)
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a member of the landed gentry .有地产的上等阶层的一员。
[with adj.]
〈贬或幽默〉 特定种类的人
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radar devices beyond the comprehension of all but the bespectacled gentry who invented them .除了那些戴眼镜的发明者谁也弄不懂的雷达装置。
"late Middle English (in the sense ‘superiority of birth or rank’): from Anglo-Norman French