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Eminence means being famous, respected, and important in a particular field — a scientist, doctor, or judge of great eminence is someone widely admired for their skill or achievements. It's also a formal title used to address a Catholic cardinal: "Your Eminence." Both uses share the same idea: standing above others in status, not in physical height.
顯赫地位、卓越聲望;(對樞機主教的敬稱)閣下
組成From a root meaning "standing out" or "rising above."
同家族的字
- eminentthe describing-word form of eminence — someone eminent HAS eminence
原始詞典資料10 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。
Eminencename
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An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana, United States.
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A ghost town in Finney County, Kansas, United States.
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A home rule city in Henry County, Kentucky, United States.
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A city, the county seat of Shannon County, Missouri, United States.
eminencenoun/ˈɛmɪnəns/
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Someone of high rank, reputation or social status.
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The quality or state of being eminent.
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Prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem.
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geographygeologynatural-sciencesAn elevated land area or a hill.
- From the summit of an eminence I had already had a distant view of Osbaldistone Hall, a large and antiquated edifice, peeping out from a Druidical grove of huge oaks [...].
- We stopped for a moment at the golf course to chat with members of the Consular staff, and then drove on to the Consulate, which was set upon an eminence, above evidences of landscape-gardening; a sweep of lawns, with coarse, whitened grass; flower-beds in which larkspur and nasturtiums fought against desperate odds.
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anatomymedicinesciencesA protuberance.
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A dark purple color.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:eminence.
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。