illustrious

英语

词源

源自拉丁语 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欧语 *lewk- (“亮；照”)或*lewh₃- (“洗”)）。

发音

• (标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助): /ɪˈlʌs.tɹɪ.əs/
• (通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助): /ɪˈlʌs.tɹi.əs/, /-ˈləs-/

• （澳洲）音频：

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• 断字：il‧lus‧tri‧ous

形容词

illustrious (比较级 more illustrious，最高级 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
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   • 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，第 224 页:

     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?

     （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

   • 2017年11月14日, Phil McNulty, “England 0 – 0 Brazil”, 出自 BBC Sport‎^[1]，于28 March 2018归档自原页面:

     [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.

     （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

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)在英语维基百科上的资料。维基百科 ^en