- 1惡名；臭名（因壞事而出名，不是正面的知名度）
Notoriety is the state of being well known for something people do not like — bad fame. A person, a place, or an act can gain notoriety: the scheme gained notoriety after the trial; he achieved notoriety for lying. The usual partners are gain, achieve, or enjoy notoriety, and of or for: notoriety for cruelty. It is not a warm compliment. Fame can be for a song or a kindness; notoriety has a stain in it. Though actually, writers sometimes use it with a raised , almost as a joke — a cook with a certain notoriety for very hot sauce — where the “bad” is only that people talk, not that a crime happened. Even then, the word still leans towards “known for the wrong kind of reason”. It is a noun. The describing word beside it is notorious.
From the word’s history
From Middle French notoriété, from Latin nōtōrius, from nōtus 'known'.
源自法文 notoriété，字根拉丁文 nōtus「眾所周知的」：壞名聲。
組成From Middle French notoriété, from Medieval Latin nōtōrietās, from nōtōrius (“known; known in a bad way”). By the look of the English word, notorious + -ety.
同家族的字
- notoriousthe adjective: famous for something people do not approve of
原始詞典資料1 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。
notorietynoun/nəʊ.təˈɹaɪ.ə.ti/
- 1
An infamous or notorious condition or reputation.
- [H]e who portrays examples of disinterestedness and intrepidity, confers on virtue the notoriety and homage that are due to it, and rouses in the spectators, the spirit of salutary emulation.
- I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
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