| 释义 |
juniority|dʒuːnɪˈɒrɪtɪ|
[f. junior + -ity.]
The state or condition of being junior (in age, appointment, or rank); youthfulness; lower position; later standing.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 54/2 Iunioritye or youth, and good temperature are profitable vnto the resanation of woundes. 1612Heywood Apol. Actors i. 30 It becomes my juniority rather to be pupil'd my selfe then to instruct others. 1668in 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. (1872) 327/1 All the Aldermen went into the Hall, and there with them, according to my juniority I took my place uppon the bench. 1846Grote Greece i. xxi. II. 270 Presuming a difference of authorship between the two poems, I feel less convinced about the supposed juniority of the Odyssey.
b. A name proposed for Borough-English.
1882[see junior-right s.v. junior n. 1 c]. |