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magnum opus

大作,巨著,巨作,丰碑

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a great work, especially the chief work of a writer or artist: Proust's magnum opus is Remembrance of Things Past.

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  • When Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many as his magnum opus.

  • When Ludwig von Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many as his magnum opus.

  • Paris Magnum: Exhibition runs from December 12, 2014-March 28, 2015.

  • Magnum came into being as a cooperative only two years after the conclusion of World War II.

  • Overall, Paris Magnum reaches both too widely and too thinly in trying to convey a sense of spectrum.

  • Magnum is an entrusted brand, with an irrefutably global reach.

  • Catalogue, published by Flammarion (2014), includes photographs from the Magnum Photos archives and text by Éric Hazan.

  • He regarded his organ in St. Paul's Cathedral (rebuilt in 1899), as his magnum opus.

  • Timor, luctus, gaudium magnum, et aversio hanc impotentiam psychicam efficiunt.

  • A wall so faced looked as if covered with a net (B in Fig. 59) and was therefore called opus rticultum.

  • To behold “Diana unveiled” was equivalent in alchemical terminology to attaining the magnum opus.

  • The works that bear a higher opus number than 65 were published after the composer's death by Fontana.