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A dignitary is a person who holds an important official position — a minister, an ambassador, a mayor at a big opening. You meet the word in the news around ceremonies, state visits, and “foreign dignitaries”. It is formal. You would not call your boss a dignitary, and you would not use it for a film star unless that person also holds an official post. It always means the person, not the job itself.
政要、顯要
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dignitarynoun/ˈdɪɡnɪtɹi/
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An important or influential person, or one of high rank or position.
- Chinese dignitaries traveled with us from place to place, and when ready to depart from Urumchi, or Tihwa, we were introduced to the high officials who were going along in the plane.
- It was a remarkable climax to a match that ended with another of those disappearing acts from John Terry only to re-emerge, in full kit, so he could climb the steps, shake the hands of Eusébio, Michel Platini and all the other dignitaries, then help Frank Lampard to lift the trophy.
dignitaryadj/ˈdɪɡnɪtɹi/
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Relating to dignity.
- The badness of a dignitary harm derives from the victim's belief that a perpetrator is willing to override or ignore her standing as a person with rights, with dignity, as evidenced by the wrongful criminal deed; […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。