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renown

/ri-noun/US // rɪˈnaʊn //UK // (rɪˈnaʊn) //

名声,声望,名望,名气

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : widespread and high repute; fame.
    • : Obsolete. report or rumor.

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Examples

  • Bisa Butler’s 2021 “I Go to Prepare a Place for You,” is a textile portrait of Harriet Tubman, equally commanding and more explicitly regal than Sherald’s depiction of an ordinary woman thrust into posthumous renown.

  • Meanwhile, On’s marketing chief, Robayna, says the company has hired a lawyer to secure residence status in Switzerland for Lobalu, whose renown has grown among the country’s runners.

  • The Brooklyn-born architect, who passed away on May 10 at age 85, first gained renown as an interior architect when he opened his practice in 1965.

  • The first Danish series to gain international renown was the 2007 show Forbrydelsen, which followed the investigation of a single crime, with each episode chronicling a day in the investigation.

  • Simmons is an interesting role model given her renown as a multi-media, feminist artist.

  • But, the Yahwist describes the Nephilim as “heroes that were of old, warriors of renown,” not as gods or even demi-gods.

  • Especially those whose renown is related to a moral failing.

  • Lukashenko openly despised Sannikov and his wife, Irina Khalip, an investigative reporter of international renown.

  • Joyce, for his part, later grumbled that Eliot gained renown by borrowing from his Ulysses.

  • In choosing Massna to carry to Paris the tidings of peace, it was not only his prestige and renown which influenced Bonaparte.

  • Among them was the famous favourite violin of Paganini, the renown of which, says M. Vuillaume, "was equal to that of its master."

  • His military renown rested largely on his ability to carry out, without hesitation and jealousy, the commands of others.

  • Not once, by word or deed, can we discern that he cherished any idea of future renown.

  • Her talents, her accomplishments, her fascinating conversational eloquence, had spread her renown widely through Europe.