Prestige
[pre'stiː(d)ʒ] or [prɛ'stidʒ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.; 'he wanted to achieve power and prestige'.
校對:佩里--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v.) Delusion; illusion; trick.
(v.) Weight or influence derived from past success; expectation of future achievements founded on those already accomplished; force or charm derived from acknowledged character or reputation.
編輯:帕梅拉
解釋/意思:
n. influence arising from past conduct or from reputation.
赛勒斯錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- I don't care for prestige or high pay. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- She destroyed her prestige by disregarding her own teaching of righteousness. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He was never ostracized--his prestige with the quieter citizens saved him from that; but he was attacked with increasing boldness and steadfastness. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They have tried to blot out human prestige, to minimize the influence of personality. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The Turkish conquests and the expansion of the known world robbed the Roman Empire of its former prestige of universality. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They did not sit down to be besieged while the mutineers organized and gathered prestige; that would have lost them India for ever. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Forrest was in his front, but with neither his old-time army nor his old-time prestige. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- And right there a lasting blow was given to the prestige of the Edison patents. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- We will not follow the fluctuations of the power and prestige of the English Parliament through the time of the Tudor monarchs (_i. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And wherever the politician through his prestige or the government through its universities can stimulate a revolution in business motives, it should do so. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- When he speaks, it is with a prestige that dumbs questioning and makes obedience a habit. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Such things as this are done successfully only when the prestige and tradition and learning of the priestly order has sunken to a very low level. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He had stripped the magical prestige from the absolutist monarchy in France. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A certain seclusion, a certain aloofness, would add greatly to the prestige of the god. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In such cases, evidence itself can hardly escape being influenced by the prestige of authority. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
整理:奥蒂斯