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 conspicuous [kәn'spikjuәs]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 显著的, 显眼的, 出众的

  1. Lincoln is a conspicuous example of a poor boy who succeeded.
    林肯是一个穷苦孩子而功成名就的出色例子。
  2. A traffic sign should be conspicuous.
    交通标志应该明显。
  3. She is a conspicuous figure.
    她是引人注目的人物。


conspicuous
[ adj ]
  1. obvious to the eye or mind

    2. <adj.all>
    a tower conspicuous at a great distance
    wore conspicuous neckties
    made herself conspicuous by her exhibitionistic preening
  2. without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious

    3. <adj.all>
    blatant disregard of the law
    a blatant appeal to vanity
    a blazing indiscretion


Conspicuous \Con*spic"u*ous\, a. [L. conspicuus, fr. conspicere
to get sight of, to perceive; con- + spicere, specere, to
look. See {Spy}]
1. Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen;
plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye.

It was a rock
Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds,
Conspicious far. --Milton.

Conspicious by her veil and hood,
Signing the cross, the abbess stood. --Sir W.
Scott.

2. Obvious to the mental eye; easily recognized; clearly
defined; notable; prominent; eminent; distinguished; as, a
conspicuous excellence, or fault.

A man who holds a conspicuous place in the
political, ecclesiastical, and literary history of
England. --Macaulay.

Syn: Distinguished; eminent; famous; illustrious; prominent;
celebrated. See {Distinguished}. -- {Con*spic"u*ous*ly},
adv. -- {Con*spic"u*ous*ness}, n.

  1. That message, conspicuous in our mismanagement of the Helsinki human-rights accords and the Gregorian case, undermines the rule of law and our statecraft.
  2. The conspicuous failure of the G7 leaders to mention the currency markets in their summit communique suggests they are back to a policy of benign neglect of the dollar.
  3. To a visitor to the occupied West Bank or Gaza, the Shin Bet is invisible; the conspicuous force here is the army, manning roadblocks and patrolling the Arab towns in jeeps.
  4. Britain, which opposes sanctions, was conspicuous by its absence from the committee of foreign ministers.
  5. But for now, capitalism and conspicuous consumption remain very much alive in the territory.
  6. In what they did and what they didn't do after their bitter U.S. Senate race, Jesse Helms and Harvey Gantt symbolized the rift in a state deeply divided over its most conspicuous member of Congress.
  7. If conspicuous, the security was not necessarily effective.
  8. And as one would expect from this capital of conspicuous consumption, the 14-month-long extravaganza will be on a grand scale, starting with a July 3 musical extravaganza, followed by an ABC-TV special and a float in the Rose Parade.
  9. Ministry officials blamed doctors for failing to read warnings against the combined use of the shingles drug with an anti-cancer agent, while doctors criticised the ministry and the drug maker for not placing conspicuous warnings.
  10. However there were some conspicuous absentees, with neither the Polish state, nor the government, nor the army in attendance.
  11. The gifts of the young Fernando Bujones, though not as remarkable as Ms. Gregory's, were nevertheless conspicuous, too.
  12. A more conspicuous cause of Honda's weakness at home, and in overseas markets to some extent, has been its lack of a full product line and diversity in the styling and size of its cars, according to analysts.
  13. Some people in Hanoi are conspicuous in new and colorful clothing.
  14. One's thoughts turn instinctively to Rolls-Royce because, if any motor car personifies conspicuous consumption, it is a Royce.
  15. 'Let the lion dog be small, with the selling cape of dignity round its neck and billowing standard of pomp above its back,' she declared. China's modern leaders have shown no such conspicuous affection for the four-legged creatures.
  16. This has been reinforced by the conspicuous success of such large immigrant groups as the Lebanese, Italians and Japanese.
  17. The agency economists noted that the figures for the fiscal fourth quarter showed "conspicuous" signs of a trend in which Japanese growth is spurred by domestic demand, especially personal spending.
  18. In stark contrast to the "rich and famous" lifestyles led by other financiers, Michael eschewed conspicuous consumption.
  19. The two-year note was unchanged, however, at 100 1/4 , to carry a yield of 4.099 per cent. The long end received a modest boost early on from overseas buyers, but there was a conspicuous lack of strong domestic demand.
  20. Admission to the order recognizes "conspicuous service" to Britain.
  21. People such as Simpson and Tyson were conspicuous spenders, as poor people tend to be when they come into vast sums of money.
  22. The glitzy signs and bargain baskets that tend to litter other electrical stores are conspicuous by their absence.
  23. Tass said the three men arrived at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport "gray-haired with worry and grief," and were conspicuous because of their old clothes and constrained manner.
  24. We have no thought of moving.' There has, however, been one conspicuous casualty of the recession: Anglia Canners was taken over and closed down with the loss of more than 250 jobs. But most companies have grown and expanded.
  25. At the moment, institutional investors are conspicuous by their absence.
  26. Mr. Bieber's departure from the board is all the more conspicuous because, at age 61, he is easily the youngest director stepping down.
  27. Typically, Mr. Parakh would approach the house and leave the conspicuous Mr. Doyle, tall, blond and fair-complexioned, slumped down in the car out of sight.
  28. And even less conspicuous are the thousands of renewable service contracts for public buildings.
  29. Indeed, amid the America-bashing from New Delhi, less conspicuous talks go on at lower levels.
  30. Highpoint One, as the block was called, was the most conspicuous statement of the so-called new "white architecture" in Britain. Many of its details, like the S-curved front to the balconies, went on to become cliches in the 1950s.
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