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外刊例句
- Charles Handy has been through a lot of challenges in a long career as a manager at Royal Dutch Shell, an oil giant, followed by a spell in academia and acclaim as a business writer championing more flexible, less hierarchical organisations.
查尔斯·汉迪曾长期在石油巨头荷兰皇家壳牌担任管理职务,期间经历了许多挑战。随后他做了一段时间的学术研究,成了备受赞誉的经管作家,提倡更灵活、层级更少的组织架构。
——《经济学人》 - The acclaimed British novelist was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank.
这位备受推崇的英国小说家也是一位一流的散文家、回忆录作家和评论家。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[verb] praise enthusiastically and publicly
[动词] 热情公开地赞扬
深入解读
Acclaim 是一个与小站(微信公众号:田间小站)去年推送的 clamor 同词根 claim, clam (喊叫)的单词。
该词由前缀 ac- (朝、向、去)+词根 claim 构成,经拉丁语 acclamare (大声喊叫)进入英语后,最早于1626年开始用来表示“称赞”或“向……欢呼、为……喝彩”,主要指热情公开地赞扬或表示赞同,并常含有一致同意的意味,比如:
- 向英雄们欢呼
acclaim the heroes - 受到普遍/高度/广泛/众口赞扬的首映式
a universally/highly/widely/publicly acclaimed premiere - 该作品被誉为杰作。
The work was acclaimed as a masterpiece.
进而 acclaim 也被用来表示以欢呼声“宣布、拥立、推选”,比如:
- 拥立某人为国王
acclaim sb king - 他们欢呼拥戴他为总统。
They acclaimed him (as) president.
值得注意的是,这在加拿大政治中还可以指“一致选举或推举”,对于被选举人来说也就是无人反对的入选。
用作名词时, acclaim 相应表示“欢呼(声)、喝彩(声)”以及“称赞、欢迎”,比如:
- 阵阵欢呼声
roars of acclaim - 评论界的赞扬
critical acclaim - 受到大学生的普遍欢迎
gain wide acclaim from college students - 赢得全国上下的赞扬
win nationwide acclaim
名著用例
Husbands acclaimed his punishment of an errant wife; faithful women felt justified in their fidelity.
做丈夫的欢呼他惩罚了不忠的妻子,贞洁的女人觉得这说明自己对丈夫忠贞不二是完全值得的。
出自印裔英国作家萨尔曼·鲁西迪(Salman Rushdie,又译萨尔曼·拉什迪)在1981年出版的长篇小说《午夜之子》(Midnight's Children)。
同近义词
- extol: praise enthusiastically
- eulogize: praise highly in speech or writing
- laud: praise (a person or their achievements) highly, especially in a public context