Noble
['nəʊb(ə)l] or ['nobl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character; 'a noble spirit'; 'noble deeds' .
(adj.) of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times; 'of noble birth' .
(adj.) inert especially toward oxygen; 'a noble gas such as helium or neon'; 'noble metals include gold and silver and platinum' .
安布尔手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(superl.) Possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart.
(superl.) Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid; as, a noble edifice.
(superl.) Of exalted rank; of or pertaining to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn; as, noble blood; a noble personage.
(n.) A person of rank above a commoner; a nobleman; a peer.
(n.) An English money of account, and, formerly, a gold coin, of the value of 6 s. 8 d. sterling, or about $1.61.
(n.) A European fish; the lyrie.
(v. t.) To make noble; to ennoble.
亚伯整理
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Great, dignified, superior, elevated, worthy, exalted, illustrious.[2]. Grand, stately, lordly, splendid, magnificent, sublime.
n. Nobleman.
校對:塞勒斯特
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Grand, aristocratic, generous, illustrious, exalted, worthy, magnanimous,dignified, excellent, lofty-minded, honorable, fine
ANT:Mean, plebeian, ignoble, paltry
伯特伦編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. illustrious: high in rank or character: of high birth: magnificent: generous: excellent.—n. a person of exalted rank: a peer: an obsolete gold coin=6s. 8d. sterling.—n. Nō′bleman a man who is noble or of rank: a peer: one above a commoner.—adj. Nō′ble-mind′ed having a noble mind.—ns. Nōble-mind′edness; Nō′bleness the quality of being noble: excellence in quality: dignity: greatness by birth or character: ingenuousness: worth; Nobless′ Noblesse′ (Spens.) nobility: greatness: the nobility collectively; Nō′blewoman the fem. of Nobleman.—adv. Nō′bly.—Noble art boxing; Noble metals (see Metal).—Most noble the style of a duke.
安东尼編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- He, the noble, the warlike, the great in every quality that can adorn the mind and person of man; he is fitted to be the Protector of England. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He lost the genial suavity of manner which is one of his greatest charMs. A noble indignation inspired his reply. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I happen to know that he paid seven hundred pounds to a footman for a note two lines in length, and that the ruin of a noble family was the result. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- For the love of Heaven, of justice, of generosity, of the honour of your noble name! 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- On the march you saw her at the head of the regiment seated on a royal elephant, a noble sight. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Noble natures under such circumstances become enraged. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- This is kind, she cried; this is noble, my own beloved! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- But, though luxurious, the Norman nobles were not generally speaking an intemperate race. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- As is the custom upon Barsoom there were thirty-one, supposedly selected by lot from men of the noble class, for nobles were on trial. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- And an army of emigrés, French nobles and gentlemen, an army largely of officers, was allowed to accumulate close to the frontier. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I could see messengers running swiftly through the audience, and as they passed the nobles there unsheathed their swords and sprang into the arena. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The nobles, who despised commerce, and the burghers, who lived by it, were always fighting for the upper hand, and the laboring people sided now with one party, and now with the other. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Where churches were being built he painted glass, where towns or nobles needed measurers or surveyors of their lands he worked for them. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The nobles did not hesitate to express their fear; the other party endeavoured to treat the matter lightly. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- This groom is the pilot-fish before the nobler shark. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Before my eyes, too, his disposition seemed to unfold another phase; to pass to a fresh day: to rise in new and nobler dawn. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- That is John Hebron, of Atlanta, said the lady, and a nobler man never walked the earth. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- To this nobler purpose the man of understanding will devote the energies of his life. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- There is a nobler strain heard in the words:--'Endure, my soul, thou hast endured worse. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Someone of a nobler character, and more worthy altogether than anyone I have ever seen here, must rise up, before I give my consent. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- There can be no nobler training than that, he replied. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I prayed them to save even from himself this scion of the noblest family in England. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Was not knowing, the activity of reason, the noblest attribute of man? 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- In still earlier years than those I have been recalling, Holliday's Hill, in our town, was to me the noblest work of God. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- This is much more agreeable to me, who esteem it the most useful, the most independent, and, therefore, the noblest of employments. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- You have heard the fate that the men of Zodanga would mete to Helium's noblest hero. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- And he was the noblest and the manliest, save Esau. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- What is it that confers the noblest delight? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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