| 单词 | cursus honorum |
| 释义 | > as lemmascursus honorum cursus honorum n. /ɒˈnɔːrəm/ [lit., ‘course of honours’] an established hierarchy of positions through which a person may advance in a profession, career, etc., originally in Anc. Rome leading to the consulship; hence, a succession of posts held on a course of advancement. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > [noun] > hierarchy of advancement cursus honorum1908 1908 H. S. Jones Roman Empire vii. 270 The tribunate and ædileship were abolished, or at any rate ceased to form alternative steps in the cursus honorum of the senator. 1959 B. North & R. North tr. M. Duverger Polit. Parties (ed. 2) i. iii. 160 To attain to the posts of real command, a slow cursus honorum must be completed; you have to be ‘apprenticed’ to the party. 1965 Mod. Law Rev. 28 517 By 1932 the cursus honorum had been established within the judiciary. 1970 Times 14 Mar. (Sat. Review) p. iv/7 Some might find it remarkable that such a cursus honorum—Dean of King's College London, Dean of Exeter, Dean of St. Paul's—should have fallen to so liberal a thinker. < as lemmas |
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