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单词 ladyship
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Definition of ladyship in English:

ladyship

noun ˈleɪdɪʃɪpˈleɪdiˌʃɪp
Her/Your Ladyship
  • 1A respectful form of reference or address to a woman who has a title.

    提及或当面称呼贵族女子时用的敬称夫人;小姐

    the car is outside, Your Ladyship

    汽车来了,夫人。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I pause there, your Honours, to say, with the greatest respect to her Ladyship, that is, in fact, a very crucial observation.
    • Your Ladyship's judgment is clear, and what I do not propose to do is to run through the arguments already heard in front of you, which are recorded clearly in the judgment.
    • I wasn't sure whether Her Ladyship would accept my proposal, and it rather unravelled my nerves.
    • I was privileged to dine with the family and sat across from her Ladyship and on the right of Lord Donovan.
    • Her Ladyship added that ‘a number of new requests were subsequently made by the Rochamel Development.’
    • It was most vexing, especially, when her Ladyship turned in Kathleen's direction to speak, placing Kathleen in the most uncomfortable disposition.
    • I'll see if His Grace is up yet, Your Ladyship.
    • The dining lounge has been prepared, will her Ladyship and the gentleman be joining you?
    • I merely tried to deliver a letter to Her Ladyship, as an elevated person charged me to do.
    • However, when Katherine arrived at the palace for the first party of the season, she could not discover her Ladyship among the many elegant ladies crowding the ball room.
    • Your Honours will see at page 731 that in the part of the reasons that goes from a through to g, her Ladyship discusses the fact that the authorities amply illustrate there is no approach which is free from difficulty.
    • There's no one in the whole of London who will disagree with the fact that Her Ladyship is a virago, plain and simple.
    • ‘Your Ladyship,’ he began, stammering uncontrolledly, ‘Your Ladyship, I have just received some dire news.’
    • Her Ladyship held that constructive knowledge, in the sense that the customer had the means of knowledge, was not enough.
    • Perhaps we could come to some arrangement, your Ladyship.
    • His actress wife, known respectfully as Her Ladyship, is kind but baffled.
    • ‘I'll help you sort her Ladyship out,’ he said with a sigh. ‘Where is she?’
    • This, whispers Her Ladyship, is where Her Majesty the Queen brings her most distinguished dinner guests for their postprandial entertainment.
    • Dinner was announced, we sat ourselves down at the silver-laden candle-lit table, Her Ladyship played five-finger exercises of conversation at the far end of the table, His Lordship and I discussed business at the other.
    • Sounding like a harpy from the barricades of Paris, Her Ladyship preached wholesale war on Dukes and Earls.
    1. 1.1British ironic A form of reference or address to a woman thought to be acting in a grand or self-important way.
      〈讽〉 对装腔作势或势利女子的指称或称呼夫人
      bow everyone, Her Ladyship's actually gracing us with her presence!

      大家快鞠躬,夫人亲自光临了。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Imagine the traffic snarls which would happen if Her Ladyship went to work.
      • Her Ladyship is down for the weekend, so the latest entry into the Idiot of the Week hall of fame is just going to have to wait.

Definition of ladyship in US English:

ladyship

nounˈlādēˌSHipˈleɪdiˌʃɪp
Her/Your Ladyship
  • 1A respectful form of reference or address to a woman who has a title.

    提及或当面称呼贵族女子时用的敬称夫人;小姐

    the car is outside, Your Ladyship

    汽车来了,夫人。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I pause there, your Honours, to say, with the greatest respect to her Ladyship, that is, in fact, a very crucial observation.
    • It was most vexing, especially, when her Ladyship turned in Kathleen's direction to speak, placing Kathleen in the most uncomfortable disposition.
    • I wasn't sure whether Her Ladyship would accept my proposal, and it rather unravelled my nerves.
    • I'll see if His Grace is up yet, Your Ladyship.
    • Perhaps we could come to some arrangement, your Ladyship.
    • I merely tried to deliver a letter to Her Ladyship, as an elevated person charged me to do.
    • Her Ladyship added that ‘a number of new requests were subsequently made by the Rochamel Development.’
    • This, whispers Her Ladyship, is where Her Majesty the Queen brings her most distinguished dinner guests for their postprandial entertainment.
    • I was privileged to dine with the family and sat across from her Ladyship and on the right of Lord Donovan.
    • ‘Your Ladyship,’ he began, stammering uncontrolledly, ‘Your Ladyship, I have just received some dire news.’
    • His actress wife, known respectfully as Her Ladyship, is kind but baffled.
    • There's no one in the whole of London who will disagree with the fact that Her Ladyship is a virago, plain and simple.
    • Your Ladyship's judgment is clear, and what I do not propose to do is to run through the arguments already heard in front of you, which are recorded clearly in the judgment.
    • Her Ladyship held that constructive knowledge, in the sense that the customer had the means of knowledge, was not enough.
    • However, when Katherine arrived at the palace for the first party of the season, she could not discover her Ladyship among the many elegant ladies crowding the ball room.
    • ‘I'll help you sort her Ladyship out,’ he said with a sigh. ‘Where is she?’
    • Sounding like a harpy from the barricades of Paris, Her Ladyship preached wholesale war on Dukes and Earls.
    • Dinner was announced, we sat ourselves down at the silver-laden candle-lit table, Her Ladyship played five-finger exercises of conversation at the far end of the table, His Lordship and I discussed business at the other.
    • Your Honours will see at page 731 that in the part of the reasons that goes from a through to g, her Ladyship discusses the fact that the authorities amply illustrate there is no approach which is free from difficulty.
    • The dining lounge has been prepared, will her Ladyship and the gentleman be joining you?
    1. 1.1British ironic A form of reference or address to a woman thought to be acting in a pretentious or snobbish way.
      〈讽〉 对装腔作势或势利女子的指称或称呼夫人
      bow everyone, Her Ladyship's actually gracing us with her presence!

      大家快鞠躬,夫人亲自光临了。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Imagine the traffic snarls which would happen if Her Ladyship went to work.
      • Her Ladyship is down for the weekend, so the latest entry into the Idiot of the Week hall of fame is just going to have to wait.
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