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单词 paragon
释义
paragonpar‧a‧gon /ˈpærəɡən $ -ɡɑːn/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINparagon
Origin:
1500-1600 Early French, from Old Italian paragone ‘stone for testing gold’, from paragonare ‘to test on such a stone’, from Greek parakonan ‘to sharpen’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • I will actually allow you to see and speak to this paragon of beauty-not to mention good taste-in person.
  • It sometimes came as a slight shock to Wycliffe to have this paragon of the modern virtues working under his direction.
  • The royal family could be relied upon as paragons of etiquette.
  • They, or at least the Quakers who lived in our town, had become paragons of propriety.
  • What did our long-suffering paragon of good grace do?
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 a paragon of virtue
someone who is perfect or is extremely brave, good etc – often used humorouslyparagon of a paragon of virtue
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