- 1隨從、隨行人員
A retinue is the group of people who travel with someone important and look after them — , advisers, guards, servants. Kings had retinues. Visiting leaders still do. Film stars have them too, though magazines often say “entourage” for that modern, glossy version of the same idea. The word feels a little old and a little grand; you would not call your friends your retinue unless you were teasing. Though actually, news writers still use it with a straight face: “the president and his retinue.” It names the people around the important person, not the important person, and not a random crowd — they are there to help and to show that this person matters.
組成From Middle English retenue, from Old French retenue, the past participle of retenir “to keep, hold back” (the same French verb behind English retain). It is a doublet of the music word ritenuto.
同家族的字
- retainboth from Old French retenir, to keep or hold back
- ritenutodoublet: Italian music term from the same Latin root, meaning held back
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
retinuenoun/ˈɹɛ.tɪ.njuː/
- 1
A group of attendants or servants, especially of someone considered important.
- the queen’s retinues
- And not any longer as a king did Winter appear in those streets, as when the city was decked with gleaming white to greet him as a conqueror and he rode in with his glittering icicles and haughty retinue of prancing winds, but he sat there with a little wind at the corner of the street like some old blind beggar with his hungry dog.
- 2
A group of warriors or nobles accompanying a king or other leader; comitatus.
- Then Igor looked up at the bright sun and saw all his warriors / darkened from it by a shadow. / And Igor said to his retinue: / “Brothers and companions! It is better to be slain than taken captive. / Mount, brothers, your swift horses that we may glimpse the Blue Don.”
- 3
obsoleteA service relationship.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。