单词patronage
n.: 赞助；惠顾；光顾；资助
网络: 赞助人；恩惠；保护
资助；赞助:
the support, especially financial, that is given to a person or an organization by a patron
（掌权者给予提挈以换取支持的）互惠互利:
the system by which an important person gives help or a job to sb in return for their support
惠顾；光顾:
the support that a person gives a shop/store, restaurant, etc. by spending money there
授取的大权
卖老;恩赐的态度
以恩赐的态度施予的恩惠;沽恩,自命恩人,恩人气派
后台;保护人
圣经授与权,牧师推荐权;官职任命权
保护,沽恩庇护
(顾客的)光顾,惠顾
施恩,恩赐;赞助;慈善性捐赠
保护人[庇护人、赞助人等]的身份[影响、作用];支援,保护;赞助,奖励
n.investmentbackingaidsponsorshipbenefaction
The patronage of these things, the language Hall "s book to be absent-minded turning over a few pages.
光顾着这些玩意儿了，语堂先生的书才心不在焉的翻了没几页。
He knew that she was taking the patronage out of his hands.
他知道她是在他手里把授取的大权拿过去。
indeed, he himself used the treasury as something of a private source of patronage and sometimes of high living.
的确，他自己也只是把国库当做是某种委任官职的个人钱财与某种高品质生活的来源。
If you get out of favor or lose your political patronage, you have to leave quickly and could lose your business.
如果你不受政府欢迎或者失去了政治庇护，你就必须马上离开，这可能使你失去自己的企业。
The United States wants to make investments in development on a basis of partnership, not patronage, she said.
国务卿表示，美国希望在伙伴合作而不是单纯提供援助的基础上进行发展投资。
He had the patronage of Zhou Enlai and was the only Chinese modernist to live out his life in China.
他受到了周恩来的支持，是中国唯一一位在国内寿终正寝的现代主义者。
A customer having a loan outstanding with the bank tends to increase the probability of his continued patronage.
顾客在这家银行有未偿还的贷款，则倾向于继续光顾这家银行。
There seems to have been some patronage of Gaelic poetry by the later Pictish kings.
这可能是后来的皮克特国王保护了盖尔语诗歌的缘故。
Corruption is still built into a system of patronage and ethnic share-outs that invariably leaves the mass of poor Kenyans feeling let down.
腐败仍渗透于国家的任命制度与各民族职位的平均分配中，这样就让众多的贫穷肯尼亚人感到失望。
She spoke of her as you might speak of some young person of genius-in want of encouragement and patronage.
她谈到她，就象你们谈到某个年轻的天才，抱怨她得不到鼓励和保护一样。