grandeur
英['grændjə;-(d)ʒə]
美['ɡrændʒɚ]
中文词源
grandeur 壮丽，堂皇来自grand, 壮丽的，堂皇的。
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.
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