| 释义 |
‖ ispravnik Hist.|isˈpravɲik|
Pl. ispravniki, ispravniks.
[Russ., lit. ‘executor’.]
A chief of police in a rural district in Tsarist Russia.
1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 70/2 The organs of the central government..are..the stanovoys and ispravniks (chiefs of the police) in the districts. 1898J. Y. Simpson Side-Lights on Siberia 90 The ispravnik of the district happened to be in the village. 1906Daily Chron. 24 Aug. 5/6 The police informed the ispravnik (chief of rural police). 1911Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 876/1 As organs of the central government there are further, the ispravniki, chiefs of police in the districts into which the governments are divided. 1952H. Altschuler tr. Gorky's Artamonovs i. 156 The ispravnik shook a threatening finger, and shouted: ‘Hush, fool!’ 1967H. Seton-Watson Russ. Empire i. i. 20 The chief executive officer at the uezd level was the ispravnik, who was elected by the nobility, and presided over the local court which was an administrative rather than a judicial body. |