He was exalted to the position of general manager. 他被提升到总经理的职位。
The performance truly exalted the audience. 演出确使观众情绪高昂。
exalted
[ adj ] of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style <adj.all> an exalted idealargue in terms of high-flown ideals a noble and lofty concept a grand purpose
Exalted \Ex*alt"ed\, a. Raised to lofty height; elevated; extolled; refined; dignified; sublime.
Wiser far than Solomon, Of more exalted mind. --Milton.
Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny. --Ames. -- {Ex*alt"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Ex*alt"ed*ness}, n. ``The exaltedness of some minds.'' --T. Gray.
Exalt \Ex*alt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exalted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Exalting}.] [L. exaltare; ex out (intens.) + altare to make high, altus high: cf.F. exalter. See {Altitude}.] 1. To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. --Is. xiv. 13.
Exalt thy towery head, and lift thine eyes --Pope.
2. To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency.
Righteousness exalteth a nation. --Prov. xiv. 34.
He that humbleth himself shall be exalted. --Luke xiv. 11.
3. To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify. ``Exalt ye the Lord.'' --Ps. xcix. 5.
In his own grace he doth exalt himself. --Shak.
4. To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate.
They who thought they got whatsoever he lost were mightily exalted. --Dryden.
5. To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument. --Is. xxxvii. 23.
Now Mars, she said, let Fame exalt her voice. --Prior.
6. (Alchem.) To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies.
With chemic art exalts the mineral powers. --Pope.
When the statistics laid the exalted mantel of extreme livability on Pittsburgh, a city once known as "hell with the lid off," even Rand McNally didn't believe it at first.
"Stoicism is the most exalted of our military and political attributes," writes Mexican poet laureate Octavio Paz.
By then the Hawaiian people themselves had discarded their kapu system of taboos, curses, sorcery and human sacrifice that exalted the nobles and kept the commoners meek.
Losing the French cognac maker Martell & Cie. to rival bidder Seagram Co. would undercut Grand Metropolitan PLC's exalted position in the highly competitive global drinks business.
If all you are looking for is something to keep your belongings safe and dry, then there are a hundred cheaper, less exalted solutions.
Few men have had longer careers in that exalted post. One was Connie Mack, and he owned his team, for heaven's sake.
A colleague, Frank Capra, said Sturges was "a strange guy. Carried his own hill with him, I tell you." Where Capra's movies exalted the decent common man, Sturges' lampooned a public willing to believe anything it was told.
Chapman is the exalted cyclops of the Rockingham County chapter of the Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan.
But earlier stagings in English of Dmitri Shostakovich's lesser-known "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" and Leos Janacek's "The Makropolous Case," both starring Barstow, helped secure those operas' exalted positions within the world repertory.
But money has assumed a more exalted place in the Fed's hagiocracy in recent months.
(Where else can you get an enthusiastic audience for your card tricks at 5 a.m.?) But Tannen's, named for the Manhattan magic shop that sponsors it, is a biggie, famed for luring both brand-name magicians and less exalted wannabes.
Coming from someone who has for years exalted such violators of human rights as Ortega, Castro and Mao Tse-tung, this is indeed revealing.
Most striking was the consistency in quality from the most exalted and expensive labels to the humbler, less costly wines.
"One of the exalted things about the mystery novel is its architecture," says Turow, who taught creative writing at Stanford University before going to law school.