1·He was a lean, patrician gent in his early sixties.
他60岁出头时曾是一位有着贵族气派的清瘦绅士。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·The public, he concluded, was often being duped by a convert patrician conservatism, conveyed through commercial culture, that restrained the people's radical instincts.
他总结说，公众经常被一种通过商业文化传播的皈依贵族保守主义所欺骗，这种保守主义抑制了人们的激进本能。
3·Latin words of course usually originated back in Roman antiquity and in that context a client was a plebeian under the patronage of a patrician.
当然，拉丁词一般可以回溯到古典罗马时期，在当时的语境中，client是指得到贵族资助的庶民。
4·Though he had patrician self-confidence, there was no snobbery in Roosevelt.
虽然罗斯福有着贵族般的自信不疑，然而他却没有丝毫的纨绔习气。
5·We understand his frustrated American dream, and we understand too why he felt the need to fabricate for himself the pedigree of a patrician family with the Anglo-sounding surname Gatsby.
我们理解他破灭的美国梦，也理解他为什么要为自己编造一个贵族家庭的身世，外加一个英国味儿的姓氏：盖茨比。