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    /ɔːˈɡʌst/

    Impressive and respected, often because of being old, important, or powerful.

    威嚴的 / 崇高的

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You can picture 'august' as the feeling you get standing before something so old, important and that you lower your voice — a grand cathedral, a venerable judge. It carries weight and commands respect rather than warmth.

可以想成:august 是你站在某個又老、又重要、又莊嚴的東西面前,會不自覺放低聲音的那種感覺——像一座古老的大教堂更多收起可以想成:august 是你站在某個又老、又重要、又莊嚴的東西面前,會不自覺放低聲音的那種感覺——像一座古老的大教堂、一位德高望重的法官。它帶著份量,讓人肅然起敬,而不是讓人覺得親切。

原始詞典資料10 筆記錄

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Augustname詞源 1/ˈɔː.ɡəst/

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    The eighth month of the Roman, Julian, and Gregorian calendars, following July and preceding September.

    • Holonyms: calendar year; year
    • The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].
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    archaicA female given name from English derived from the month (of birth).

    • August, Charis named her, because that's when she was born. Warm breezes, baby powder, languorous heat, the smell of mown hay. Such a soft name. Too soft for her daughter, who has added an a. Augusta, she is now — a very different resonance. Marble statues, Roman noses, tight-lipped commanding mouths.
    • AUGUST[ 2017]: [Mark] Zuckerberg and [Priscilla] Chan's second daughter, August, is born.

Augustname詞源 2

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    A male given name from Latin.

    • Thirteen year old August is the eldest; he begins to pull the kite downward. Like his sister and brother, June and July, he has been named after the month in which he was born.
  • 2

    A surname from Latin.

  • 3

    A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.

augustadj詞源 1/ɔːˈɡʌst/

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    Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable.

    • an august patron of the arts
    • In the book of Pſalms there are many things ſaid of David, which ſeem capable of a much auguſter ſenſe than can be pretended to be anſwered by any thing that befel himſelf.
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    Of noble birth.

    • an august lineage
    • A branch of the house of Lorraine, in comparison with which even the royal race of Capet was mean, the Guises traced back their august lineage through a long line of warrior princes to the Imperial figure of Charlemagne.

augustverb詞源 2/ɔːˈɡʌst/

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    obsoleterareTo make ripe; ripen.

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    obsoleterareTo bring to realization.

    • By divine science and cœlestial art / He for the cause of the dear nations toiled, / And augusted man's heavenly hopes that so, / […] / he might, by awful rites / […] / Adhæsion with Divinity achieve.

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資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。