grandeur
英 ['gr?ndj?; -(d)??]
美['ɡr?nd??]
- n. 壯麗；莊嚴；宏偉
CET6+TEM8GRETOEFL低頻詞擴展詞匯
中文詞源
grandeur 壯麗，堂皇
來自grand, 壯麗的，堂皇的。
英文詞源
- grandeur (n.)
- c. 1500, "loftiness, height," from Middle French grandeur, from Old French grandor "size, height, extent, magnitude; greatness" (12c.), from grand "great" (see grand (adj.)). "Being a word of late adoption, it retains the Fr. form -eur of the suffix." Extended sense of "majesty, stateliness" in English is first recorded 1660s.
雙語例句
- 1. Columns are usually intended in architecture to add grandeur and status.
- 圓柱在建筑中通常用來增添氣勢和顯示地位。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Murphy's powerfully spoken Oedipus is an autocrat of iconic grandeur.
- 墨菲激情演繹的俄狄浦斯王是位圣像般威嚴的獨裁者。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Only inside do you appreciate the church's true grandeur.
- 只有深入其中，你才能真正欣賞教堂的富麗堂皇。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. For sheer scale and grandeur, Leeds Castle in Kent takes some beating.
- 單從規模和氣勢來說，肯特的利茲城堡獨領風騷。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. He suggested that we suffer delusions of grandeur as a football nation.
- 他暗示我們妄自尊大地以為自己是個足球民族。
來自柯林斯例句
