grandeur
英 ['grændjə; -(d)ʒə]
美 ['ɡrændʒɚ]
grandeur 中文词源
grandeur 壮丽，堂皇来自grand, 壮丽的，堂皇的。
grandeur 英文词源
- grandeur (n.)
- c. 1500, "loftiness, height," from Middle French grandeur, from Old French grandor "size, height, extent, magnitude; greatness" (12c.), from grand "great" (see grand (adj.)). "Being a word of late adoption, it retains the Fr. form -eur of the suffix." Extended sense of "majesty, stateliness" in English is first recorded 1660s.
grandeur 双语例句
1. Columns are usually intended in architecture to add grandeur and status. 圆柱在建筑中通常用来增添气势和显示地位。 来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Murphy's powerfully spoken Oedipus is an autocrat of iconic grandeur.
- 墨菲激情演绎的俄狄浦斯王是位圣像般威严的独裁者。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Only inside do you appreciate the church's true grandeur.
- 只有深入其中，你才能真正欣赏教堂的富丽堂皇。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. For sheer scale and grandeur, Leeds Castle in Kent takes some beating.
- 单从规模和气势来说，肯特的利兹城堡独领风骚。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. He suggested that we suffer delusions of grandeur as a football nation.
- 他暗示我们妄自尊大地以为自己是个足球民族。
来自柯林斯例句