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 laureate ['lɒ:riәt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 戴桂冠的, 用月桂树枝编织成的, 荣誉的

n. 桂冠诗人

vt. 使戴桂冠




    laureate
    [ noun ]
    1. someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath

    2. <noun.person>
    [ adj ]
    1. worthy of the greatest honor or distinction

    2. <adj.all>
      The nation's pediatrician laureate is preparing to lay down his black bag


    Laureate \Lau"re*ate\, a. [L. laureatus, fr. laurea laurel tree,
    fr. laureus of laurel, fr. laurus laurel: cf. F. laur['e]at.
    Cf. {Laurel}.]
    Crowned, or decked, with laurel. --Chaucer.

    To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
    --Milton.

    Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines. --Pope.

    {Poet laureate}.
    (b) One who received an honorable degree in grammar,
    including poetry and rhetoric, at the English
    universities; -- so called as being presented with a
    wreath of laurel. [Obs.]
    (b) Formerly, an officer of the king's household, whose
    business was to compose an ode annually for the king's
    birthday, and other suitable occasions; now, a poet
    officially distinguished by such honorary title, the
    office being a sinecure. It is said this title was first
    given in the time of Edward IV. [Eng.]
    (c) A poet who has been publicly recognized as the most
    pre-eminent poet of a country or region; as, the poet
    laureate of the United States.
    [1913 Webster +PJC]


    Laureate \Lau"re*ate\, n.
    1. One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate. ``A learned
    laureate.'' --Cleveland.

    2. A person who has been presented with an award for some
    distinguished achievement; as, a Nobel laureate; the Pris
    de Rome laureate; the Music Director Laureate; the
    conductor laureate.
    [PJC]


    Laureate \Lau"re*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Laureated}; p. pr. &
    vb. n. {Laureating}.]
    To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in
    bestowing a degree at the English universities.

    1. Thomas Shadwell, poet laureate and restoration dramatist, was much derided by John Dryden over 300 years ago and has had to wait a long time for a modern production.
    2. Meanwhile, a conference of intellectuals and human-rights activists proposed Nobel Peace laureate Andrei Sakharov as a candidate for the Soviet parliament.
    3. He asked Walesa, the 1983 Nobel Peace laureate, for more information about his allegations.
    4. They are also members of Solidarity's Executive Commission, chaired by union leader and 1983 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa.
    5. Scientists at research institutes were the main workers in the capital to heed the strike call to demand an end to Communist Party domination, an aide to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate said.
    6. Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, an Auschwitz survivor who appeared on the same program, said Jews are in a no-win situation in the dispute.
    7. "Stoicism is the most exalted of our military and political attributes," writes Mexican poet laureate Octavio Paz.
    8. Sheldon Glashow, a Nobel laureate and professor of physics at Harvard, will serve as Quantum's physics editor.
    9. The church and relief center were set up in Sudan in 1985 by the Missionaries of Charity, the worldwide missionary movement of Catholic nuns and Nobel laureate Mother Teresa.
    10. Its members are Drell, deputy director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; Nobel laureate Charles H. Townes of the University of California at Berkeley; and John S. Foster, head of the Defense Science Board.
    11. Other notables taking part in the observance are Edgar M. Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress; the Israeli actor Topol; author Jerzy Kosinski; and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, who has written extensively about the Holocaust.
    12. Nobel laureate and MIT biologist David Baltimore was viewed as the probable best alternative to Deutch.
    13. In fact, the only trace of Keynesianism in our book is the warm endorsement on the dust jacket by Nobel laureate James Tobin, a noted Keynesian.
    14. Mother Teresa was feeling better today after a persistent fever disappeared, said a Roman Catholic nun at the mission founded by the Nobel laureate in Calcutta's slums.
    15. The danger of military confrontation between the superpowers and the credibility of that threat is lessening every hour." _ Leon M. Lederman, Nobel laureate, on the status of the Doomsday Clock.
    16. The chancellor earlier highlighted his concern for human rights by meeting with Andrei D. Sakharov, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate at the West German ambassador's residence.
    17. The Soviet Union dropped a 1974 treason case against Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and the 72-year-old exiled author said in Vermont that he eventually will return.
    18. Surgeons implanted a pacemaker in Mother Teresa today, and hospital officials said the Nobel laureate's condition had improved.
    19. Walesa, a founder of Solidarity and 1983 Nobel Peace laureate, said he did not believe he would take part in the debate.
    20. In 1969, he retired from the post to concentrate on composing and was appointed the Philharmonic's laureate conductor for life. He has conducted 1,244 New York Philharmonic concerts, more than any other conductor.
    21. But now aides say the Solidarity chairman and Nobel Peace Prize laureate is contending with some unforeseen "doubts" in Poland and abroad in connection with an ad he did for the Philip Morris Cos., makers of Marlboro cigarettes.
    22. The late Richard Feynman, the Nobel laureate, warned an audience of Australian students that they would not understand this, because he did not himself.
    23. Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel canceled an appearance here after learning his fee would come from a grant by a conservative publisher once accused of being a South African agent.
    24. Soviet dissident Yelena Bonner said Wednesday that her late husband, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov, would have been uneasy with Mikhail Gorbachev winning the same prize.
    25. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his struggle against apartheid in South Africa, has called on a fellow Nobel laureate to join him in mediating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
    26. In what Nobel laureate George Stigler has described as "one of the most exciting intellectual events of my life," Prof.
    27. The British prime minister, on the fourth day of a visit to Moscow, had lunch with dissident physicist and Nobel Peace laureate Andrei Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner.
    28. Indeed, many of the undecideds argue that their timorousness over the Reagan request grows out of their hopes for the peace plan of Costa Rican President and Nobel peace laureate Oscar Arias Sanchez.
    29. After the official demonstration, Yeltsin addressed about 10,000 protesters who gathered near Communist Party headquarters, marched past the KGB and ended up near the home of the late physicist Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel Peace laureate.
    30. Ten years ago: The Soviet Union, accusing Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov of "subversive work," sent him and his wife, Yelena Bonner, into internal exile in the industrial city of Gorky.
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