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/mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/ · /mæɡˈnɪfɪsənt/
So beautiful, so big, or so well done that people stop and admire it. It is used about buildings, views, objects, and large animals, and also about things people do extremely well.
壯麗；出色
比較級 more magnificent最高級 most magnificent
核心畫面
Picture the moment a person stops walking and just looks — a cathedral, a mountain view, a tiger. The thing is big or beautiful or finely made enough that it takes hold of you for a second. That reaction is what the word points at, and it transfers to human work done so well that people react the same way to a performance or a meal.
可以想成一個人走著走著突然停下腳步、抬頭盯著看的那一刻：一座大教堂、一片山景、一隻老虎。那個東西大得、美得、或做得精…更多收起
可以想成一個人走著走著突然停下腳步、抬頭盯著看的那一刻：一座大教堂、一片山景、一隻老虎。那個東西大得、美得、或做得精緻到把你的視線扣住了幾秒鐘。這個字指的其實是那個反應，不只是東西本身；所以它也能搬到人做出來的事上——一場演出、一頓飯、一次表現好到讓人也是那樣「哇」了一下，就可以說 magnificent。它比 nice、good 重很多，用在小事上會顯得誇張。原始詞典資料3 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。
magnificentadj/mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/
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Grand, elegant or splendid in appearance.
- “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.
- Armstrong: "Isn't that something! Magnificent sight out here." Aldrin: "Magnificent desolation."
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Grand or noble in action.
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Exceptional for its kind.
- They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
- Substitute Edin Dzeko scrambled in a fourth and the magnificent David Silva ran clear to add another, before the Bosnian striker inflicted the final wound seconds from the end.
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。