fame

英 [feɪm] 美[fem]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词reputation name popularity glory renown

n. 名声，名望；传闻，传说
vt. 使闻名，使有名望

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中文词源

fame 名声

来自PIE*bha, 说，告知，词源同phone, fable.引申为众人皆知的，有名声。

词态变化

复数: fames;

英文词源

fame: fame: [13] Etymologically, fame is ‘being talked about’. The word comes via Old French fame from Latin fāma ‘talk, reputation’. This in turn goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *bha- ‘speak’, which also produced English confess, fable, fate, ineffable, etc. The derivatives famous and infamous are both 14thcentury acquisitions.
=> confess, fable, fairy, fate, ineffable, profess
fame (n.): early 13c., "character attributed to someone;" late 13c., "celebrity, renown," from Old French fame "fame, reputation, renown, rumor" (12c.), from Latin fama "talk, rumor, report; reputation, public opinion; renown, good reputation," but also "ill-fame, scandal, reproach," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (cognates: Sanskrit bhanati "speaks;" Latin fari "to say," fabula "narrative, account, tale, story;" Armenian ban, bay "word, term;" Old Church Slavonic bajati "to talk, tell;" Old English boian "to boast," ben "prayer, request;" Greek pheme "speech, voice, utterance, a speaking, talk," phone "voice, sound," phanai "to speak;" Old Irish bann "law").

The goddess Fama was the personification of rumor in Roman mythology. The Latin derivative fabulare was the colloquial word for "speak, talk" since the time of Plautus, whence Spanish hablar.
I've always been afraid I was going to tap the world on the shoulder for 20 years, and when it finally turned around I was going to forget what I had to say. [Tom Waits, "Playboy" magazine interview, March, 1988]

双语例句

1. Vivienne Westwood has scaled the heights of fashion's hall of fame.: 薇薇恩·韦斯特伍德已成为时装界的翘楚。

2. Such roles are small beer compared with the fame she once enjoyed.: 和她曾经享有的名气相比，这样的角色真的算不了什么。

3. At the height of his fame, his every word was valued.: 在他声名鼎盛之时，他的每句话都受到重视。

4. Some people want fame or riches — I just wanted a baby.: 有人希望得到名望，有人希望获得财富——我只想要个孩子。

5. Affleck catapulted to fame after picking up an Oscar.: 摘得奥斯卡奖后，阿弗莱克一举成名。

英英释意

1. the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed

2. favorable public reputation

考试真题

It is not the first time one of Google’s famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused one.

Its fame in high technology is incomparable.

The bear first gained fame after it was spotted wandering around neighborhoods and was caught on videos that were posted on social media and shown on national television.

She achieved her fame through persistent advocacy of fake science.

Brooks gained fame for several books.

Fame is a great thirst of the young.

It has wide international fame and is included in many architecture textbooks.

It was important for the keeper's fame.

Part of the fame of Allen‘s book is its contention that “Circumstances do not make a person， they reveal him.

The runaway success of The Pickwick Papers, as it is generally known today, secured Dickens’s fame.

The runaway success of The pickwick Papers, as it is generally known today, secured Dickens' fame.

实用场景例句

She went to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune .: 她为追逐名利去了好莱坞。

to achieve/win instant fame: 立即获得 / 迅即赢得名声

to rise/shoot to fame overnight: 一夜之间成名

Andrew Lloyd Webber of ‘Evita ’ fame (= famous for ‘Evita ’): 以《艾维塔》成名的安德鲁·劳埃德·韦伯

The town's only claim to fame is that there was once a riot there.: 这个镇唯一出名之处就是那里有过一次暴乱。

The film earned him international fame.: 这部电影为他赢得了国际声望。

At the height of his fame, his every word was valued...: 在他声名鼎盛之时，他的每句话都受到重视。

When convening the assembly , however , you shall blow without sounding an alarm.: 民10:7但招聚会众的时候、们要吹号、不要吹出大声.

She is a woman of ill fame.: 她是个名声不好的女人.

His fame as a poet did not come until after his death.: 他死后才获得诗人的名声.

Mao's fame surpassed well beyond the limits of China.: 毛泽东的名声远远超越了中国国界.

He never reaches after personal fame and gain.: 他从不追求个人名利.

For him fame does not count for much.: 在他看来,出名算不了什么.

One's fame has spread far and wide.: 威名天下扬.

The book charts her rise to fame as an actress.: 这本书记述了她作为演员的成名史.

He needs no trappings of fame.: 他不需要名声的虚饰.

He is mad for fame.: 他疯狂地追求名誉.

After ten years'hard study noticed by none, his fame fills the land once honours are won.: 十年寒窗无人问, 一举成名天下知.

Many people hunt after fame in their lives but never find it.: 很多人一生追逐名利,但是总不能成功.

She's seeking fame in the world of television.: 她想在电视界出名.

He is a man of ill fame.: 他这个人名声很坏.

After this concert she was firmly on the road to fame and fortune.: 这次音乐会后,她已稳步踏上了名利双收的道路.

Shelley's fame had spread in the walls of the college.: 雪莱的名声在大学里边传开了.

The reformer's fame spread all over the country.: 这位改革者名震全国.

I don't go after fame or money.: 我不追求名利.

He got a fine fame for being generous with his money to help others.: 他因慷慨解囊而得到好名声.

We shouldn't seek after comfort, personal fame , or gain.: 我们不应该贪图安逸, 追名逐利.

the Country Music Hall of Fame: 乡村音乐名人堂

a meteoric rise to fame: 迅速成名

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