Prominent
['prɒmɪnənt] or ['prɑmɪnənt]
解释:
(a.) Standing out, or projecting, beyond the line surface of something; jutting; protuberant; in high relief; as, a prominent figure on a vase.
(a.) Hence; Distinctly manifest; likely to attract attention from its size or position; conspicuous; as, a prominent feature of the face; a prominent building.
(a.) Eminent; distinguished above others; as, a prominent character.
整理:马文
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Protuberant, projecting.[2]. Conspicuous, eminent, celebrated, distinguished, famous.
录入:莱斯特
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Jutting, protuberant, relieved, embossed, extended, manifest, conspicuous,eminent, distinguished, main, important, leading, characteristic, distinctive
ANT:Receding, concave, rebated, indented, hollowed, engraved, intailed, withdrawn,inconspicuous, minor, secondary, unimportant, indistinctive, undistinguishable,subordinate
邦妮整理
解释:
adj. standing out beyond the line or surface of something: projecting: most easily seen: conspicuous: principal: eminent: distinguished.—ns. Prom′inence Prom′inency state or quality of being prominent: conspicuousness: distinction.—adv. Prom′inently.
阿方索整理
例句:
- Not long ago a prominent senator remarked that he didn't know much about the country, because he had spent the last few months in Washington. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- With my strict English ideas as to the class of clothes to be worn by a prominent man, there was nothing in Edison's dress to impress me. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- But prominent in it was a draped table with a gilded looking-glass, and that I made out at first sight to be a fine lady's dressing-table. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- In this manner a good deal of capital and the energies of many prominent men in politics and business had been rallied distinctively to the support of arc lighting. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The door was opened by a swarthy foreign-looking maid, with a prominent bosom under a gay neckerchief, whom he vaguely fancied to be Sicilian. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- A prominent factor in the electrical art is the _Storage Battery_, Secondary Battery, or Accumulator, as it is variously called. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The Duke of Wellington, then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, and many other prominent men were present. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Among them, and prominent in some dispute, was the father of the little child. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- But his strong commanding face, his eagle glance, firm mouth, and prominent nose marked him at once as a born leader of men. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Abraham in red going to sacrifice Isaac in blue, and Daniel in yellow cast into a den of green lions, were the most prominent of these. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I should have been happy to have made Lady Dedlock a prominent consideration, too, if the case had admitted of it; but unfortunately it does not. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Prominent among those who have contributed to this art are the names of Turpin, Abel and Dewar, Nobel, Maxim, Munroe, Du Pont, Bernadou and others. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Other prominent Frenchmen made encouraging experiments on small steamboats--followed in 1784-86 by James Rumsey and John Fitch in America in the same line. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- There is a kind of professional reconciler of opposites who likes to lump all the prominent rebels together and refer to them affectionately as us radicals. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Prominent among modern improvements in steam railways is the air brake. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
校对:朱莉娅