Ruritanian

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˌɹʊə.ɹɪˈteɪ.ni.ən/    美 /ˌɹʊɹ.ɪˈteɪ.ni.ən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person from the fictional land of Ruritania.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or having the characteristics of adventure, romance, and intrigue, as in works of romantic fiction.
    — He had, it is true, indulged in a sort of Ruritanian flirtation with the queen, seen her secretly, pronounced her very solemnly the “only man” about the king, and made rather a fool of himself in that matter, but his schemes were drawn upon a much larger scale than the scale of the back stairs of the Tuileries.
  2. Used to describe a fictitious and generic foreign government or person, used to state a general or hypothetical situation.
    — In practice, the Ruritanian regime is autocratic, controlling business, government, finance, and military posts.

词形变化

more Ruritanian comparative most Ruritanian superlative Ruritanians plural

词源

词源 1
From Ruritania + -an, after the fictional kingdom used as the setting for stories by Anthony Hope (1863–1933).
词源 2
From Ruritania + -an, after the fictional kingdom used as the setting for stories by Anthony Hope (1863–1933).
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