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单词 splendour
释义
splendour
noun
UK(USsplendor)
uk
/ˈsplen.dər/us
/ˈsplen.dɚ/
C2[U]
greatbeautythatattractsadmirationandattention:
壮丽；雄伟；辉煌
Theyboughtadecaying16th-centurymanorhouseandrestoredit toitsoriginalsplendour.他们买了一幢破败的16世纪庄园宅邸，经过整修使它恢复了先前的富丽堂皇。
splendours[plural](USsplendors)
thebeautifulfeaturesorqualitiesof aplace, etc.:
（某地的）壮丽景色，美景
the splendoursofVenice威尼斯的瑰丽景色
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Beauty and attractiveness
  • aesthetic
  • attractiveness
  • beauty
  • chic
  • crowning gloryidiom
  • good looks
  • gorgeousness
  • grace
  • gracefulness
  • grandeur
  • lustrously
  • magnificence
  • majestically
  • majesty
  • nobility
  • shapeliness
  • stateliness
  • sublimity
  • sultriness
  • va-va-voom
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(Definition ofsplendourfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsplendour

splendour
This representation of rich textiles and fabrics served to heighten the illusion of the grandeur, thesplendourand the power of the king.
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There, before her preferred audience of assembled lords, gentlemen, ladies and others, the wedding ceremonials were played out with maximumsplendourand magnificence.
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Similar concerns of fashion andsplendourinfluenced the construction of trading and market halls and even factories.
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Such pecuniary remuneration should accompany it, as would enable the person holding the rank to support it with dignity andsplendour.
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He was so impressed by itssplendourthat he hurried back home and returned with his wife and son to worship the image together.
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Here the canons lived in comfort and even a certainsplendour, along with their servants and sometimes their relatives.
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No one realised thesplendourof terracing the city down to the water.
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Local traffic increased enormously, crowding our old streets, cluttering and destroying thesplendourof the monumental squares.
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They endeavoured to excel in thesplendourand elegance of their equipage, houses and tables.
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It may well be that the prospect of unchecked female power, symbolised so compellingly by thesplendourof the prima donna, had become both too fascinating and too terrifying.
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Although it might seem to occupy one extreme end of the aesthetic spectrum, the ballet was an important component of this reconciliation of dramatic action and visualsplendour.
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However, even though economic growth improved during the last 30 years of the eighteenth century, this growth did not achieve thesplendourof the first half of the century.
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In addition, he proclaimed the hugesplendourof the landscape of vast direct taxation cuts which would be opened up after disposal of the windmills.
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All of us who value the beauty of our countryside and thesplendourof our architectural heritage should be grateful for their work.
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He said that the "late financial administration"had"retired to those dim splendours at the end of the corridor which are the goal of all rising demagogues".
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