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n. 名望, 名声, 传说

  1. His fame as a poet did not come until after his death.
    他死后才获得诗人之名。
  2. She won her overnight fame by her first novel.
    她的第一部小说一问世,便使她一举成名。
  3. His fame was bought at the expense of health and happiness.
    他获得了名声牺牲了健康和幸福.


fame
[ noun ]
  1. the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed

  2. <noun.state>
  3. favorable public reputation

  4. <noun.state>


Fame \Fame\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Famed},; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Faming}.]
1. To report widely or honorably.

The field where thou art famed
To have wrought such wonders. --Milton.

2. To make famous or renowned.

Those Hesperian gardens famed of old. --Milton.


Fame \Fame\ (f[=a]m), n. [OF. fame, L. fama, fr. fari to speak,
akin to Gr. ???? a saying, report, fa`nai to speak. See
{Ban}, and cf. {Fable}, {Fate}, {Euphony}, {Blame}.]
1. Public report or rumor.

The fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house.
--Gen. xlv.
16.

2. Report or opinion generally diffused; renown; public
estimation; celebrity, either favorable or unfavorable;
as, the fame of Washington.

I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited.
--Shak.

Syn: Notoriety; celebrity; renown; reputation.

  1. Al-Shiraa gained international fame in November 1986, when it was first to report on the secret U.S arms shipments to Iran in return for the release of hostages.
  2. Tupelo, Miss., has a new claim to fame.
  3. Then, after a mere four years of fame, most Elsies are put out to pasture.
  4. Giuliani, who gained fame with a string of high-profile prosecutions as U.S. attorney in Manhattan, hopes to fashion a fusion candidacy in the mold of John V. Lindsay in 1965, the last Republican to win City Hall.
  5. Her first novel, "Dusty Answer," won immediate fame for the young author when it was published in 1927.
  6. The first Methodist chapel, used by John Wesley from 1743, is about to be turned into Covent Garden offices; previous tenants include the London City Ballet and the Tiller Girls, the high-stepping entourage of second world war fame.
  7. They can no longer blithely plunder our psyches for their subject-matter'. In spite of her fame and success, Jong still presents herself as something of an outsider.
  8. Hokey, maybe, but this town's fame grew from tropical visions and corny promotional schemes.
  9. Ms. Garzarelli, a market analyst at Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc., won a small measure of fame last October when the mutual fund she manages, Sector Analysis Portfolio, was one of the few stock funds to post a gain the week of the crash.
  10. Her real-life replacement, Ms. Farrow, plays another of the radio stars, a hat-check girl who finds fame after she sheds her Brooklyn accent (the same delightful squawk the actress put on in "Broadway Danny Rose").
  11. The Pulitzer for fiction went to "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love," Oscar Hijuelos's novel about two Cuban brothers who find some fame in New York's nightclubs.
  12. Bruno Bettelheim, a psychologist and prolific author who studied under Sigmund Freud and gained fame for his work with emotionally disturbed children, killed himself Tuesday in a Maryland nursing home, a medical examiner said.
  13. International labor hero Walesa still retains a host of folksy touches nearly nine years after strikes at the Lenin Shipyard that spawned Solidarity catapulted him to fame and a Nobel Peace prize.
  14. The 45-year prison sentence and $500,000 fine handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Potter should send a clear message to those who think fame and wealth will save them from a common jail cell.
  15. Clark gained fame and plaudits from the Reagan administration and most of his school's students and parents for his no-nonsense approach, which included roaming the halls with a baseball bat and a bullhorn.
  16. The lights, the cameras and the attention all evoked the Warholian ideal of 15 minutes of fame.
  17. The Boston Celtics, of basketball fame, have been having much the same good time with reports they will soon hear their last hurrah in the NBA playoffs.
  18. "Last Notes" has brought Exley even more fame.
  19. Mr. Ruff gained fame in the late 1970s with a best-selling book, "How To Prosper in the Coming Bad Times," in which he suggested that readers store food and buy gold.
  20. Clark gained fame last year through his bat-and-bullhorn method of discipline at Eastside High in Paterson, a troubled inner-city high school.
  21. It still sounds pretty rum to me, coming from a man who committed his life to, and built his international fame upon, a passion for geese. Peter Scott was a famous man for 40 years.
  22. These students rejected the idea of art for art's sake and denounced "bourgeois culture" and fame and fortune for artists.
  23. Few weapons in the war with Iraq have won more fame than the Patriot air defense system, which was celebrated by President Bush in a Feb. 15 visit to Raytheon Corp.'s facilities in Massachusetts.
  24. He died angry that his early adventures hadn't won him enduring fame and recognition, only half-aware that his photographs were his memorial.
  25. The hall of fame is in several renovated rooms of the Euclid Shore Civic Center, a former junior high school.
  26. The greater the fame of the heroes, the more apt you are to find tacky items and stories twisting up around their memory like tendrils of the kudzu vine, said Charles Wilson, a professor of history and Southern studies at the University of Mississippi.
  27. His claim to fame is such gently mischievous novels as "Changing Places," "Small World" and "Nice Work," which has just been issued in paperback.
  28. He gained wider fame in a nationally televised speech in May to the Congress of People's Deputies.
  29. Munna earned fame during the 1985 Festival of India in France.
  30. A professional snowboarder can rake in $10,000 to $25,000 a year and get a light dusting of commercial fame.
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