| 单词 | history-making |
| 释义 | > as lemmashistory-making history-making adj. and n. (a) adj. that creates history or a history; (b) n. the action or process of creating history or a history. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > worthy of notice > historic historic1756 historical1782 history-making1838 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > performing important events history-making1873 1838 Athenæum 6 Oct. 721/1 Americans..possess a decent pedigree of three centuries and a half; and..for the last two of these centuries they have been an active and history-making people. 1873 Amer. Cycl. IV. 472/2 As an incipient effort in the art of history making, it [sc. Confucius's history of Lu, his native state] appears to have called forth much admiration and eulogium in early times. 1944 Z. N. Hurston Let. 1 Oct. in Life in Lett. (2002) 507 Some truly wonderful and history-making things which we may work on. 1962 W. H. Auden Dyer's Hand (1963) 278 Man is a history-making creature. 1999 Independent 1 Dec. i. 2/1 Northern Ireland's disparate new cabinet settled into office yesterday after all the history-making of Monday. < as lemmas |
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