Exalt
[ɪg'zɔːlt;eg-] or [ɪɡ'zɔlt]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) raise in rank, character, or status; 'exalted the humble shoemaker to the rank of King's adviser'.
錄入:萨姆纳--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.
(v. t.) To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency.
(v. t.) To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify.
(v. t.) To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate.
(v. t.) To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument.
(v. t.) To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies.
整理:维维安
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Raise, elevate, erect, lift up.[2]. Ennoble, dignify, aggrandize.[3]. Praise (highly), extol, magnify, glorify, bless.
整理:苏西
同義詞及反義詞:
[See ELEVATE]
整理:肯尼思
解釋/意思:
v.t. to elevate to a higher position: to elate or fill with the joy of success: to extol: (chem.) to refine or subtilise.—n. Exaltā′tion elevation in rank or dignity: high estate: elation: (astrol.) the position of a planet in the zodiac where it was supposed to wield the greatest influence.—p.adj. Exalt′ed elevated: lofty: dignified.—n. Exalt′edness.
錄入:洛伦佐
例句/造句/用法:
- Never had Lefferts so abounded in the sentiments that adorn Christian manhood and exalt the sanctity of the home. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Just as it belonged to his boastfulness to depreciate his own extraction, so it belonged to it to exalt Mrs. Sparsit's. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Two factors conspire in the later period of ancient life, however, to exalt literary and humanistic studies. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- When would the days begin of that active wifely devotion which was to strengthen her husband's life and exalt her own? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- She knew how trial and emotion would exalt and strengthen it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- And I may feel well assured that your daughter Bella,' again turning to her husband, 'does not exalt her family by becoming a Mendicant's bride. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Those sentiments exalt me above all merely personal considerations. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- She saw the Israelitish empire exalted, and she saw it annihilated. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Great and exalted deeds are what he lives to perform. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Perhaps his exalted appreciation of the merits of the old girl causes him usually to make the noun-substantive goodness of the feminine gender. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Dear Esther, let me only tell you that the fond idea of you which I took abroad was exalted to the heavens when I came home. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Raymond had been exalted by the determination he had made; but with the declining day his spirits declined. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He was a pure and exalted activity. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Separated from them; exalted in my heart; sole possessor of my affections; single object of my hopes, the best half of myself. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- But do you not see, that, under the idea of exalting me, he is chalking out a new path for himself; a path of action from which he has long wandered? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I see no reason for exalting the unconscious failures of other revolutions into deliberate models for the next one. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- At first this sounds like standing the world on its head, denying reason and morality, and exalting practice over righteousness. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Do you notice how it exalts everything? 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
校對:米利森特