英 [ˈkɔːtiə(r)] 美 [ˈkɔːrtiər]
n. 朝臣；奉承者；谄媚者
n. （Courtier）人名；（法）库尔捷
复数courtiers
courtier /ˈkɔːtɪə/
可数名词 Courtiers were noblemen and women who spent a lot of time at the court of a king or queen. 朝臣
an attendant at the court of a sovereign
... plausible 貌似合理/公平的 courtier 朝臣 devious 绕来绕去的，迂回曲折的 ...
... [at one's side]∶身边 [courtier;attendant]∶近臣;随从 [you]∶对人不直称其名,只称左右,以表示尊敬;信札亦常用以称呼对方 ...
... [at one's side] 身边 [courtier;attendant] 近臣;随从 [you] 对人不直称其名,只称左右,以表示尊敬;信札亦常用以称呼对方 ...
The emperor called on Birbal, his wisest courtier.
皇帝召见了他最聪明的朝臣比巴尔。
He was an adroit courtier.
他是一个圆滑的朝臣。
He remained, at heart, a courtier and a cynic.
在心底里，他其实仍然是一名侍臣，同时也玩世不恭。
Now turning to your sheet, in the early, early modern period the poet and courtier, Sir Philip Sidney, wrote an elegant, really wonderfully written defense of poetry, in one edition called The Apology for Poesie.
现在回到发给你们的材料上来，英国，伊丽莎白时期的朝臣及诗人，西德尼，曾写过很多很多，优美的诗歌，全部收录在一本名为《诗辩》的集子里。
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But there is a less obvious answer, inherently appealing to any courtier of the Machiavellian Mitterrand.
Looney, who in 1920 proposed an Elizabethan courtier, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
It was not politic of him to liken Peter Mandelson, the prime minister's upwardly mobile courtier, to a crab.