| 单词 | privately-educated |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprivately-educated Forming adjectives with past participles, as privately-educated, privately-minded, privately-owned, etc. ΚΠ 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. vi. 154 She used to accommodate me with some privately purloined dainty on a nursery chair. 1869 Nature 18 Nov. 87/2 The privately-printed papers..are acknowledged to have been preliminary. 1899 Daily News 26 Oct. 7/1 The mischiefs of the privately-owned railways. 1905 Daily Chron. 8 Aug. 2/7 The one person who is a drag upon progress towards a..happier social life, is the privately-minded person. 1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England vi. 95 Those privately educated oicks are a pretty grisly set of oicks. 1974 Country Life 21 Mar. 693/2 This privately owned Motor Inn situated on the water's edge. 1994 Antique Collector June 42/2 The British Museum is exhibiting Chinese ceramics from the huge, privately-held Meiyintang Collection. 2001 M. Blake 24 Karat Schmooze xxiii. 267 Her slacker's swagger pruned back to privately educated roots. < as lemmas |
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