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ennoble

音標[i'n?ubl] 讀音

漢語翻譯


vt. 授予爵位, 使高貴

詞型變化:

名詞:ennoblement 動詞過去式:ennobled 過去分詞:ennobled 現在分詞:ennobling 第三人稱單數:ennobles 

英文解釋:

動詞 ennoble:

  1. confer dignity or honor upon
    同義詞:dignify
  2. give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility
    同義詞:gentle, entitle

例句:

  1. Ennoble a prime minister for distinguished service.
    因其傑出的功勞授予總理爵位
  2. His character has been ennobled by all his sufferings.
    他受盡苦難,卻志節彌高。

詳細解釋:


en.no.ble

v.tr.(及物動詞)
en.no.bled,en.no.bling,en.no.bles
To make noble:
使崇高:
例句:
.that chastity of honor . . . which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil.(Edmund Burke)
.那榮譽的貞潔使它所接觸的一切都更尊敬,而在此貞潔之下便是 * 本身也會失去它一半的罪惡.(埃德蒙·伯克)

To confer nobility upon:
授予爵位:
例句:
ennoble a prime minister for distinguished service.
因其傑出的功勞授予總理爵位

來源:
Middle English *ennoblen
中古英文 *ennoblen
from Old French ennoblir
源自 古法文 ennoblir
en- [causative pref.] * see en-
en- [使役前綴] *參見 en-
noble [noble] * see noble
noble [貴族] *參見 noble

【引伸】
enno.blement
n.(名詞)
enno.bler
n.(名詞)

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