1.家长;族长;(特指)犹太民族的祖先;(团体的)元老
2.(科学,学派,宗教等的)鼻祖,创始人
3.(基督教的)早期主教;【天主】罗马教皇;东正教的最高一级主教
4.【圣】雅各 (Jacob) 的十二个儿子;亚伯拉罕 (Abraham),以赛 (Isaac),雅各 (Jacob) 和他们的祖先
1.家长;族长;(特指)犹太民族的祖先;(团体的)元老
2.(科学,学派,宗教等的)鼻祖,创始人
3.(基督教的)早期主教;【天主】罗马教皇;东正教的最高一级主教
4.【圣】雅各 (Jacob) 的十二个儿子;亚伯拉罕 (Abraham),以赛 (Isaac),雅各 (Jacob) 和他们的祖先
1.the oldest man in a family or organization, who is respected because of this
2.a religious leader in one of the orthodox Christian churches
1.Noah is not a Jewish "patriarch" but a sun god, and the tale of entering and exiting the Ark signifies the sun's death and resurrection.
诺亚并不是犹太人的“族长”，而是一个太阳神，进入和退出方舟的故事是象征太阳的死亡和复活。
2.Last week he took to the wheel of his Soviet-era Volga Gaz-21 car, giving Russia's patriarch a lift.
上周，他驾驶着他前苏联时代的伏尔加嘎斯21汽车送了俄罗斯主教一程。
3.Perhaps it's that we each see a little bit of ourselves in the Simpson patriarch's encyclopedic collection of character flaws.
也许，那是我们每个人在辛普森一家的一大堆缺点中看到了我们自己的影子。
4.Setting up trusts years in advance of the death of a patriarch used to be a way to avoid inheritance tax.
过去还有家族掌门人在去世前提前数年创立信托基金，目的是为了避开遗产税。
5."If I weren't so fat, I'd have made you a good wife, " she teasingly told Patriarch Bartholomew who, as an Orthodox bishop, is celibate.
“我要不是这么胖的话，就要做你的好妻子。”海森夫人故意揶揄巴塞罗缪主教——这位东正教主教还是单身。
6.The patriarch of the house was an old man of nearly 90.
屋子里的主人是一个将近九十岁的？公公。
7.In court, Peruggia admitted meeting in London with Henry Duveen, patriarch of a legendary antique dealing family.
在法庭上，佩鲁贾供认曾在伦敦见过从事古董生意的传奇家族的老大亨利·杜维恩。
8.Brothers, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day.
弟兄们，先祖大卫的事，我可以明明的对你们说，他死了，也葬埋了，并且他的坟墓，直到今日还在我们这里。
9.It was Mr Moss, now based in Thailand, who advised the Bloch family to sell the collection after its patriarch died a year ago.
还是莫斯（现在其公司总部搬到了泰国）建议布洛克家族卖掉那些收藏，其家长已于一年前死亡。
10.Yet to experience the good of being part of a greater whole carries with it responsibility to live by the patriarch's values.
但是，要享受作为大家庭成员的好处就意味着要承担一种责任，即要按家长制定的价值观念去生活。