Plebeian

(noun.) one of the common people.

编辑:凯利

• He's drunk; he's a drunken plebeian. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Now (this is entirely between ourselves), is she very plebeian? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Plebeian, prince, and noble had one solicitude in common--they would not be forgotten! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The plebeian power to stop business by the veto of their representatives, the tribunes, was fully exercised. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This community followed the usual tradition of a division into aristocratic and common citizens, who were called in Rome patricians and plebeians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This Lex Valeria was the Habeas Corpus of Rome, and it freed the Roman plebeians from the worst dangers of class vindictiveness in the law courts. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The plebeians were ousted from any share in the conquered lands, which the patricians divided up among themselves. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The plebeians withdrew again a second time to the Sacred Mount, and Appius Claudius committed suicide in prison. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Before the Punic Wars it was the tendency of ambitious men in Rome to court the plebeians; after that time they began to court the legions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And finally (3) there were patricians big-minded and far-seeing enough to insist upon the need of reconciliation with the plebeians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Trade was coming to Rome with increasing political power, and many plebeians were growing rich and many patricians becoming relatively poor. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The mass of the details of this struggle between patricians and plebeians we can afford to ignore in this outline. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• For a long time the Roman patricians were clever enough to beat every such potential tyrant by giving in to a certain extent to the plebeians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It abated because, among other influences, the social differences between patricians and plebeians were diminishing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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