eminence
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源自古法语 eminence,源自拉丁语 ēminēntia (“卓越,显赫”)。
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eminence (可数 和 不可数,复数 eminences)
- 名声显赫的人
- 名声显赫
- 卓越,名望
- (地质学) 高地,山丘
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
- From the summit of an eminence I had already had a distant view of Osbaldistone Hall, a large and antiquated edifice, peeping out from a Druidical grove of huge oaks [...].
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- 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
- We stopped for a moment at the golf course to chat with members of the Consular staff, and then drove on to the Consulate, which was set upon an eminence, above evidences of landscape-gardening; a sweep of lawns, with coarse, whitened grass; flower-beds in which larkspur and nasturtiums fought against desperate odds.
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- (解剖学) 隆起
- (不可数) 深紫色
- 有关本词的更多用例,请参阅Citations:eminence。
- eminence:
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- (显赫): obscurity、mediocrity
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