illustrious

英语

词源

源自拉丁語 illūstris (“明亮的，闪亮的；显赫的，突出的”) +‎ -ous (从名词构成形容词的后缀，表示拥有或显示出某种特质，程度任意)。illūstris派生自illūstrō (“照亮；使...出名，使...名声显赫”)，源自in- (表示里面的前缀) + lustrō (“通过献祭来净化；照亮”)（lustrō (“（净化为目的的）献祭”)，可能最终源自原始印歐語 *lewk- (“亮；照”)或*lewh₃- (“洗”)）。

发音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ɪˈlʌs.tɹɪ.əs/
• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ɪˈlʌs.tɹi.əs/, /-ˈləs-/

• （澳洲）音频

  （文檔）

• 斷字：il‧lus‧tri‧ous

形容词

illustrious (比較級 more illustrious，最高級 most illustrious)

1. 名声显赫的，著名的，大名鼎鼎的 （自16世纪中叶）
   • Template:RQ:Spectator
   • Template:RQ:Dickens Christmas Carol
   • 1941, Ogden Nash, “The Ant”, 出自 The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash, reprint版, Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing Company, →OCLC，頁號 224:

     The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 2017 11月 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0 – 0 Brazil”, 出自 BBC Sport‎^[1]，於28 March 2018歸檔自原頁面:

     [Marcus] Rashford showed the fearless streak [Gareth] Southgate so admires with his constant willingness to run at Brazil's defence with pace, even demonstrating on occasion footwork that would not have been out of place from members of England's illustrious opposition.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

反义词

• forgotten
• overlooked
• unadmired
• undistinguished
• unrespected

 

衍生词汇

• illustriously
• illustriousness
• nonillustrious
• unillustrious

 

相关词汇

• lustrious

延伸阅读

• illustrious (disambiguation)在英語維基百科上的資料。維基百科 ^en