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firmament

/fur-muh-muhnt/US // ˈfɜr mə mənt //UK // (ˈfɜːməmənt) //

苍天,苍穹,苍天有眼,苍天不负有心人

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the vault of heaven; sky.

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Examples

  • Chris Brown, who was convicted of felony assault, has been fully reintegrated into hip-hop’s firmament, showing that once toxic figures will be readily embraced by the industry if they prove themselves to be financially productive.

  • All of the cases thus far have focused on claims that mandates violate federal law, but much of the legal firmament that guides our lives is state law.

  • You ascend to your rightful place in the cultural and socioeconomic firmament, all because that famous person saw something extraordinary in you that you hadn’t yet discovered in yourself.

  • Americans are expected to care about SNL because a bunch of aging people are in control, and to them, SNL remains one of the stars of the cultural firmament.

  • The societies coming out of this psychological firmament have always been points of reference that give people a secure sense of meaning and validation.

  • The British film industry had grown and Hitch was a star in its small firmament.

  • The reader leaves with a better sense of the firmament and frontline fights occurring in the current independent movement.

  • But his disappearance from the Washington firmament does not mean that the work he used to do is being left undone.

  • The critical firmament and fanboy intelligentsia rose up in dissent.

  • Kristol was viewed as a mover and shaker whose ideas had ready impact on the political firmament in Washington.

  • For when a voice came from above the firmament, that was over their heads, they stood, and let down their wings.

  • Blessed art thou in the firmament of heaven: and worthy of praise, and glorious for ever.

  • The old faiths faded from the firmament of human thought as the stars of midnight at the dawn of day.

  • Nut was the goddess of the firmament; Ma was the goddess of truth; Horus was the mediator between creation and destruction.

  • They who in heaven are enthroned as gods, in the light of the firmament; with the Maruts come hither, O Agni!