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单词 illustrious
释义
illustrious
(ɪlʌstriəs )
adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
If you describe someone as an illustrious person, you mean that they are extremely well known because they have a high position in society or they have done something impressive.
...the most illustrious scientists of the century.
...his long and illustrious career.
Synonyms: famous, great, noted, celebrated  
Collocations:
illustrious history
Second rows have an illustrious history as Lions leaders.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It is a game that boasts a long and illustrious history in its birthplace of India.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
This is a site with an illustrious history, but little in the way of physical evidence on the ground.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Three times league champions, Wolves have dropped there only twice before in their illustrious history.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
illustrious list
This latest claim of invention follows an illustrious list.
Times, Sunday Times
The tournament has an illustrious list of winners.
Times, Sunday Times
Other organisations have longer and less illustrious lists of clients.
Times, Sunday Times
illustrious name
This illustrious name did not, however, save him from his mounting debts and his estates were seized and his collections sold.
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Wherever he went, wandering like the world's rejected guest, he met with the honor due to his illustrious name.
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Of this illustrious name were several other members attached to literature.
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Nor his skill in engineering a cast so full of illustrious names.
Times, Sunday Times
That said they were hardly performing to the standard expected from one of the game's most illustrious names.
The Sun
illustrious past
Yet its illustrious past is also a burden.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
She was inspired by an illustrious past.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
BEHIND the uninspiring name lies a company with an illustrious past.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
In days gone by Milan would still have been the favourites in this tie but they are a shadow of the great sides of their illustrious past.
The Sun (2011)
Translations:
Chinese: 著名的
Japanese: 著名な
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