esquire

1.There is not among them an esquire, saving the unlettered magistrate.

他们当那目的执事，没有一乡绅。

2.The superstratum esquires kept the local people from uprising and joining the Taiping army and squashed the rebeldom cruelly;

上层绅士还严防本地人起义、杜绝他们参加太平军，对起义者残酷镇压；