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prima donna

/pree-muh -don-uh, prim-uh; Italian pree-mah -dawn-nah/US // ˌpri mə ˈdɒn ə, ˌprɪm ə; Italian ˈpri mɑ ˈdɔn nɑ //

女主角,首席女演员,骁将,首席执行官

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pri·ma don·nas, Italian pri·me don·ne [pree-me -dawn-ne]. /ˈpri mɛ ˈdɔn nɛ/.

    • : a first or principal female singer of an opera company.
    • : a temperamental person; a person who takes adulation and privileged treatment as a right and reacts with petulance to criticism or inconvenience.

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  • On one summer lunch hour, Donna Ann Levonuk, 50, lifted a tub of diaper cream priced at $43.98—and then stashed it in her purse.

  • Hughes, when she was known as Donna Rice, was involved in a steamy scandal involving presidential politics.

  • Middleton only bridles when asked about the likelihood of marrying his girlfriend, the presenter Donna Air.

  • Zayas recalled a witness claiming that once "Delle Donna referred to Elvin as a spic."

  • "When Negron got let go, he got a tape recorder," a source close to the Delle Donna case told me.

  • The tenor dies; the prima donna appears to do the same, but the libretto consoles you by declaring that she only swoons.

  • Prima facie, the verdict here is less favorable than in the previous case.

  • He sang bravura airs with a facility of vocalisation any prima donna might have envied.

  • Even here the glorious voice of the prima donna floated clear as a silver bell.

  • The young girl became, thanks to him, the celebrated prima donna of the Fenice theatre, at Venice in 1820.