- 1aB1/mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/ · /mæɡˈnɪfɪsənt/壯麗；出色
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.
示範例句 · Example
The castle on the hill looked magnificent in the evening light.
逐字山丘上的城堡在傍晚的光線裡看起來很壯麗。
magnificent 用在「又大、又美、又讓人一看就佩服」的東西上——古堡、山海景色、有年代的大家具，或是一隻雄鷹；也可以用在表演、比賽這種「做得極好」的事情上。它比 beautiful 多了規模和氣勢，比 good、nice 強很多，所以通常不會拿來講一杯還不錯的奶茶。可以想成：看到的當下你會停下腳步，忍不住「哇」一聲——這個「哇」就是 magnificent 跟其他「好看」的字最不一樣的地方。
常見搭配
a magnificent view
壯麗的景色
a very beautiful and impressive thing to look at
From the balcony there was a magnificent view of the mountains.
look magnificent
看起來很壯觀
to seem very beautiful and impressive when you see it
The old bridge looks magnificent when the lights come on at night.
a magnificent building
宏偉的建築
a large old building that people admire
The town hall is a magnificent building from the 1800s.
a magnificent performance
精彩的演出
a performance that someone does extremely well
The young dancers gave a magnificent performance on Saturday.
absolutely magnificent
簡直太壯觀了
used to make 'magnificent' even stronger
The final show was absolutely magnificent.
core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.
原始詞典資料3 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。
magnificentadj/mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/
- 1
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."
- 2
Grand or noble in action.
- 3
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.
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。