- 1權杖（國王或女王在典禮上拿的裝飾杖；美式 scepter）
A sceptre is a special stick, often gold or set with jewels, that a king or queen holds at ceremonies. It is a sign of the right to rule, not a walking stick and not a weapon, though it can look a little like both. You see it in portraits, coronations, and fairy tales. Real monarchs may still carry one on a very formal day; the rest of the time it lives in a palace. British English sceptre; American English scepter. Though actually, the ending -re tricks the eye: spectre (British for “ghost”) looks similar and is a completely different word. Nobody rules with a ghost, and nobody is haunted by a royal stick.
組成From Middle English septre / sceptre, from Old French sceptre, from Latin scēptrum, from Ancient Greek σκῆπτρον (skêptron), “staff, stick, baton,” from σκήπτω (skḗptō), “to prop, support, lean on a staff.”
同家族的字
- scepterthe same English word in American spelling
原始詞典資料4 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。
Sceptrename
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A hamlet (special service area) in the Rural Municipality of Clinworth, Saskatchewan, Canada.
sceptrenoun/ˈsɛptə/
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An ornamental staff held by a ruling monarch as a symbol of power.
- “Divine receptacle of excellence, let it not be deemed impertinent, or deviating from the rules of propriety, if I propound one queſtion which now labours in my breaſt; aſſuring me firſt, you will not let the ſceptre of true judgment depart from your right hand.”
- To the fleet he came / Bearing rich ranſom glorious to redeem / His daughter, and his hands charged with the wreath / And golden ſceptre of the God shaft-arm’d.
sceptreverb/ˈsɛptə/
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To give a sceptre to.
- To Britain's queen the sceptred suppliant bends.
- 2
To invest with royal power.
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。