eminence

参见：éminence 和 Eminence

英语

词源

源自古法语 eminence，源自拉丁语 ēminēntia (“卓越，显赫”)。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈɛmɪnəns/

• （英国南部）音频：

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名词

eminence (可数 和 不可数，复数 eminences)

1. 名声显赫的人
2. 名声显赫
3. 卓越，名望
4. (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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5. (解剖学) 隆起
6. (不可数) 深紫色
   • 有关本词的更多用例，请参阅Citations:eminence。

   eminence： 

近义词

• distinction
• prominence
• renown
• celebrity

反义词

• (显赫)： obscurity、mediocrity

衍生词汇

• eminence grise
• Eminence (your Eminence)
• frontal eminence
• gray eminence
• grey eminence
• hypothenar eminence
• ileocecal eminence
• median eminence
• preeminence

 

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