- 1稱頌、讚揚（書面、正式）
To laud someone or something is to praise them, often in a public, formal way — in a review, a speech, or a newspaper, not usually over dinner. Critics laud a film; a school may laud a student’s work. It is a rather verb. Everyday English prefers praise, and that is the word you should use first. Though actually, laud still turns up because writers like a verb that sounds like a ceremony, not a pat on the back. There is also an old noun laud, “praise,” and in church language Lauds is a morning prayer, but the living use you will meet is the verb: to laud. It does not mean the result was perfect. People laud an effort, an idea, or a person they want to lift up.
組成From Latin laudāre, “to praise,” from laus, “praise.” It came through Old French into Middle English. German Lied (“song”) is a distant cousin from the same old root; English also had a rare doublet leed, “song,” but that is history, not a word you pair with laud today.
原始詞典資料6 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。
Laudname
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A surname.
- 2
An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Whitley County, Indiana, United States.
laudnoun/lɔːd/
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Glorification or praise.
- So doo vvell and thou ſhalt have laude of the ſame (that is to ſaye of the ruler) […]
- Laud be to God
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Hymn of praise.
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A prayer service following matins.
laudverb/lɔːd/
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To praise; to glorify.
- And hys mought was opened immediatly / and hys tonge / and he ſpake lawdynge god.
- The most recognised and lauded dictionary of Indian English today is Yule and Burnell’s Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Anglo-Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms; Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive, first published in 1886 and updated by William Crooke in 1903.
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。