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If you refer to a man as thedoyenof a group or profession, you mean that he is the oldest and most experienced and respected member of it. 元老
[正式][usu sing, usu 'the' N 'of' n]
It firsttookthose doyensofnineteenth-andtwentieth-centuryscience fiction, Jules VerneandH. G. Wells, toshowusjust how driven theirimaginedscientists could be.
Its doyens have gained powerful positions in government, although this may be down to the modern assumption that if people are rich they must be smart.
In an effort to differentiate herself from the doyens of DIY like Stewart, Morin avoids saying the word "craft, " which she thinks makes people think of popsicle sticks.
In the wake of Kobe one of the doyens of Japanese seismology, Kiyoo Mogi, noisily quit his post as the government's top earthquake adviser because of the futility of the task.