1. 1盛名、名聲

    Renown is the fame you have when many people know your name and look up to you for a skill, a piece of work, or a quality. We often say a writer of great renown or a scientist of international renown. Though actually, this is a rather noun. In ordinary talk people say fame or she’s well known for… You do not count it: we do not say “a renown.” And it is not empty celebrity. Renown has a warm, respectful feel — people admire you; they do not merely recognise your face. You will meet it in newspapers that want to sound a little grand, and in history writing.

core核心畫面

組成From Old French renoun (modern French still has renom). That is re- + noun, and noun here meant “name,” not the grammar word. The old idea is a name spoken again and again — fame.

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  • renownedthe adjective: famous and admired

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。

renownnoun/ɹɪˈnaʊn/

  • 1

    Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.

    • She is a theame of honour and renowne, / A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come canonize us, […]
    • And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: […]
  • 2

    obsoleteReports of nobleness or achievements; praise.

    • […] She / Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan, / Of whom so often I have heard renown, / But never saw before;

renownverb/ɹɪˈnaʊn/

  • 1

    To make famous.

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