early 13c., "noble birth or condition," from Old French noblece "noble birth, splendor, magnificence" (Modern French noblesse), from Vulgar Latin *nobilitia, from Latin nobilis (see noble (adj.)). French phrase noblesse oblige "privilege entails responsibility" is attested in English first in 1837.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. La Noblesse restaurant has much to recommend it.
“貴族”餐館有很多值得稱道之處。
來自柯林斯例句
2. They did so without hope of further profit and out of a sense of noblesse oblige.
他們這樣做并未打算進(jìn)一步獲利，而是出于一種義不容辭的貴族責(zé)任感。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Noblesse has become the region's leading lifestyle class for high society.