简单来说就是cavalier还可以当形容词,但是knight就不行
Cavalier
–noun
1. a horseman, esp. a mounted soldier; knight.
2. one having the spirit or bearing of a knight; a courtly gentleman; gallant.
3. a man escorting a woman or acting as her partner in dancing.
4. (initial capital letter) an adherent of Charles I of England in his contest with Parliament.
–adjective
5. haughty, disdainful, or supercilious: an arrogant and cavalier attitude toward others.
6. offhand or unceremonious: The very dignified officials were confused by his cavalier manner.
7. (initial capital letter) of or pertaining to the Cavaliers.
8. (initial capital letter) of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Cavalier poets or their work.
–verb (used without object)
9. to play the cavalier.
10. to be haughty or domineering.
knight
–noun
1. a mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior in the Middle Ages.
2. (in Europe in the Middle Ages) a man, usually of noble birth, who after an apprenticeship as page and squire was raised to honorable military rank and bound to chivalrous conduct.
3. any person of a rank similar to that of the medieval knight.
4. a man upon whom the nonhereditary dignity of knighthood is conferred by a sovereign because of personal merit or for services rendered to the country. In Great Britain he holds the rank next below that of a baronet, and the title Sir is prefixed to the Christian name, as in Sir John Smith.
5. a member of any order or association that designates its members as knights.
6. Chess. a piece shaped like a horse's head, moved one square vertically and then two squares horizontally or one square horizontally and two squares vertically.
7. Nautical.
a. a short vertical timber having on its head a sheave through which running rigging is rove.
b. any other fitting or erection bearing such a sheave.
–verb (used with object)
8. to dub or make (a man) a knight.
