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To lionize someone is to treat them as very important or famous: to make a fuss, invite them, quote them, put them at the centre of the room. It has nothing to do with real lions. People used to call a fashionable famous guest a “lion,” and this verb grew from that. Today it can sound a little cool, even a little sharp — the papers lionized the young star, then moved on. It is a fairly formal, verb. Friends do not lionize each other over dinner; newspapers, towns, and fans do it to public people.
捧成名人、當偶像吹捧（不是「變成獅子」）
組成From lion + -ize, the verb ending that means “to make or treat as.”
同家族的字
- lionfamous fashionable people were once called lions; this verb treats someone as that kind of lion
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。
lionizeverb/ˈlaɪənaɪz/
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To treat (a person) as if they were important, or a celebrity.
- Flare-riding is one of the most exotic and exhilarating sports in existence, and those who can dare and afford to do it are amongst the most lionized men in the Galaxy.
- He [Li Wenliang] died of COVID-19 in February, lionized by the Chinese public as a hero and whistleblower.
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To visit (a famous place) in order to revere it.
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。