But in practice Geneva was a patrician gerontocracy, dominated by a few families.

a patrician manner

高贵的举止

...the patrician banker Sir Charles Villiers.

出身名门的银行家查尔斯·维利尔斯爵士

The old patrician was buried in the family vault.

这位老贵族埋在家族的墓地里.

How is your darling Patrician?

你们的小宝宝一切都好 吗 ?

The order forces the patrician families to choose sides.

这条命令迫使贵族家庭们选择支持哪一方.

When a will was discovered near the man's dead body, patricide was suspected.

当男尸旁的遗嘱被发现时, 人们便怀疑这是一桩杀父案.

This put me in mind of some-thing Patrick said many years ago.

这使我想起多年前帕特里克曾说过的话。

Patrick lifted the gate to prevent It'scraping along the ground.

帕特里克把门抬起来免得刮着地面.

What have you got for me this morning, Patrick?

今天上午你为我安排了些什么，帕特里克？

Patrick is now at London University.

帕特里克现在就读于伦敦大学。

She felt that what she had done was a betrayal of Patrick.

她觉得自己的所作所为是对帕特里克的背叛。

"I'm sorry about Patrick," she said.

“我为帕特里克感到难过，”她说。

The common patrilineal ancestor of all humans alive today has been dubbed Y-chromosomal Adam.

今天所有人类的共同父系祖先已经被授予了Y染色体亚当的称号.

They shall have like portions to eat, beside cometh of the sale of his patrimony.

除了他卖祖父产业所得的以外,还要得一分祭物与他们同吃.

The spontaneity music has excludes it as a luxury item a patrimony of society.

音乐不再是一项奢侈品,或者是一些家族的遗传或继承.

His grandfather left the patrimony to him.

他的祖父把祖传的财物留给了他.

They maintained a superior legal position and imposed traditional notions of patrimony.

男性拥有较优势的法令地位,并受益于有继承家业的传统观念.

I left my parents' house, relinquished my estate and my patrimony.

我离开了父母的家，放弃了我的房产和祖传财产。

Gambling has come to the rescue of China's cultural patrimony.

赌博来拯救中国的文化遗产了.

Natural resources are seen by many as a national patrimony, meaning all profits should be shared.

自然资源被许多人看做是国家的遗产, 这意味着来自他们的所有利润都应该被大家分享.