retinue
n. 随行人员, 侍从们
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教材释义与例句
随行人员；扈从
释义与例句
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1.
A group of attendants or servants, especially of someone considered important.
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随员
the queen’s retinues
12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.
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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.”
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A service relationship.
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From Middle English retenue, from Old French retenue, past participle of retenir (“retain”). Doublet of ritenuto.
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