| 单词 | samurai |
| 释义 | samurai (once / 5282 pages) n Use the noun samurai when you're talking about the elite Japanese warriors who practiced martial arts in pre-industrial Japan. These days you'll only see samurai in movies about Japan, and it's easy to think of them as fictional superheroes. They really did exist, though, and played an important part in Japanese history, as members of the nobility from the tenth century all the way through the 1800s. In Japanese, the word samurai means "warrior or knight." WORD FAMILYsamurai: samurais USAGE EXAMPLESThe warrior samurai enforced their lords' reign over the peasantry by extending punishments to transgressors' families. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) “Samurai 9,” in pale yellow, is a less lavishly outfitted adversary, ready to rumble, as well as a house with a sharply pitched roof. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) In Kubo and the Two Strings, released this summer, he was a proud samurai trapped in the body of a beetle. Time(Dec 21, 2016) 1n feudal Japanese military aristocracy Hyper aristocracy, nobility a privileged class holding hereditary titles 2n a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy Hyper warrior someone engaged in or experienced in warfare |
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