- 1美其名的（a glorified waiter ≒ 美其名為侍者，其實沒比較厲害；不是「光榮的」那種讚美。）
The use meet most is a little sarcastic: a glorified X is still just X, but someone has dressed it up to seem more important. A glorified intern is still an intern, even if the job title sounds grand. A glorified calculator is still a calculator, even if they call it a computer. You use it when you think the fancy name is doing too much work. There is an older, straighter meaning too: made full of glory, praised — as in religious language — but in everyday talk the ‘made to sound bigger than it is’ pattern is the one that matters. Though actually, both live in the same word; tone tells you which one you are hearing.
From the word’s history
Past participle of glorify, from Latin glōrificō: glōria + -ficō 'to make'.
glorify 加 -ed；源自拉丁文 glōria「榮耀」。
組成glory + -ify (‘to make’) + -ed. So: made into glory — or made to look that way.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
glorifiedadj
- 1
transformed into something more glorious than it actually is (often used sarcastically)
- The gyroscope is however merely a glorified spinning top […]
- Voluntary thrift, embodied in industrial insurance, nurtured character, but social insurance was merely a glorified form of poor law legislation.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。