Prince Regent

基本解釋

The Prince Regent himself attempted to move to another of his official residences, but was forced to turn back.
攝政王自己盡管曾嘗試著到他的另一處官邸去，也被破迫折回。
The "vast and trunkless legs" could as well belong to the famously corpulent Prince Regent, holding lavish banquets in Carlton House while the poor scraped and starved;
那個“無軀干的巨大的腿”也可能是那位著名的胖?jǐn)z政王的—他曾經(jīng)在卡頓酒店舉行過多次豪華酒宴，而同時窮人們卻食不裹腹。
But the regent, Prince Chun was an old enemy and Yuan had been sacked after Cixi’s death – the official reason was that he was suffering from a leg ailment.
但是由于醇親王是他的宿敵，慈禧死后，袁氏被免職——官方的借口是：他當(dāng)時患有腿疾。

After the fall of Napoleon, he went to England, where he worked for the Prince Regent before becoming the highest-paid chef in history.
ECONOMIST: French cuisine
It seems almost bizarre to imagine William Wilberforce, the high-minded anti-slavery campaigner, indulging in friendly social chit-chat with the Prince Regent (a typical conversation with the prince, as recorded by an amazed Persian diplomat, encompassed such topics as the large size of his brother's penis, revealed as he relieved himself out of a carriage window).
ECONOMIST: English history
Transformed in the early 1800s by the Prince Regent (later King George IV) from a south-coast fishing village into a fashionable spa, Brighton boasted a railway connection with London as early as 1841—a couple of years after Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot published their historical findings on how to fix images made by the effects of light.
ECONOMIST: This show is a gem

a prince who acts as regent during the minority, disability, or absence of the legal sovereign