Notoriety
[nəʊtə'raɪɪtɪ] or [,notə'raɪəti]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or condition of being notorious; the state of being generally or publicly known; -- commonly used in an unfavorable sense; as, the notoriety of a crime.
整理:特蕾西
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Repute (generally in a bad sense), reputation, celebrity, fame, name, note, vogue, figure.
詹妮整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Publicity, vogue, repute, celebrity, knowledge_certainty
ANT:Privacy, secrecy, concealment, obscurity, mystery, suspicion, rumor, whisper
贝琪校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage with angels ascending and descending.
埃斯特尔校對
例句/造句/用法:
- They were gazelles, of soft-eyed notoriety. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- But no one knows so well as the Secretary, who opens and reads the letters, what a set is made at the man marked by a stroke of notoriety. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- His affections are, I believe, at this moment, divided between a Mrs. Bang, a Mrs. Patten and a Mrs. Pancrass, all ladies of Covent Garden notoriety. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The public and shameless sale of beautiful mulatto and quadroon girls has acquired a notoriety, from the incidents following the capture of the Pearl. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Montagu, the relation of the lady in Gloucester Place, of chimney-sweeping notoriety, assisted to keep up the spirit of the dance. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- When we met latterly in the Park, there was something so natural and unaffected, and wild, about your manner, that I began to forget your notoriety. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- All I feared was to bring notoriety, scandal, on the family--on you and May. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- The Zalinski dynamite gun was of this class, and the first which attained any notoriety. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The Thompsonian system of treating diseases was covered by patents in 1813, 1823 and 1836, and attained considerable notoriety in the early half of the century. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Are men dazzled simply by the scale of his flounderings, by the mere vastness of his notoriety? 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They hanged at Tyburn, in those days, so the street outside Newgate had not obtained one infamous notoriety that has since attached to it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Insufferable to him were all notorieties and celebrities: where he could not outshine, he fled. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
整理:瓦莱丽