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accolade

/ak-uh-leyd, -lahd; ak-uh-leyd, -lahd/US // ˈæk əˌleɪd, -ˌlɑd; ˌæk əˈleɪd, -ˈlɑd //UK // (ˈækəˌleɪd, ˌækəˈleɪd) //

荣誉,荣誉勋章,荣誉证书,荣誉感

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any award, honor, or laudatory notice: The play received accolades from the press.
    • : a light touch on the shoulder with the flat side of the sword or formerly by an embrace, done in the ceremony of conferring knighthood.
    • : the ceremony itself.
    • : Music. a brace joining several staves.
    • : Architecture. an archivolt or hood molding having more or less the form of an ogee arch.a decoration having more or less the form of an ogee arch, cut into a lintel or flat arch.

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Examples

  • I played pretty good, productive football while I was there and received a lot of accolades for it.

  • Existing shareholders are rewarded when stock prices rise, and CEOs reap the benefits via compensation and professional accolade.

  • Now Facebook wants accolades for its clean-up work, before it even successfully solves the problems it has created.

  • In March, early in the coronavirus pandemic, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff won accolades for saying the company would not do any “significant layoffs” over a three-month period and would pay its hourly workers while the company’s offices were closed.

  • The sentiment, intent, objections, and accolades are all there for you to learn from, but you have to invest the time to dive in beyond a high-level engagement graph.

  • By the way, why is special interests always shady while special needs is practically an accolade?

  • What Kurland said he remembered most though was not an individual accolade, but a moment that transcended sport.

  • It was a history-making accolade for Ridley, who became only the second black person to win the Best Screenplay Oscar.

  • In some ways, “pioneer” is the most lucrative accolade of all.

  • “Unsung Yugoslavian novelist” is not the sort of accolade that moves a book off of a shelf.

  • The meanest hind was ennobled by the accolade of martyrdom to the loftiest peerage of the skies.

  • What sort of an accolade he expected on arriving to keep his passion on its legs, Heaven only knows!

  • Aylward, you are a trusty soldier, for all that your shoulder has never felt accolade, nor your heels worn the gold spurs.

  • As she looked proudly down at the hand he had honored with a blow as with an accolade she saw by her watch that it was after six.

  • Yet on the livery of the countryside the accolade of Frost had wrought a wonder.