单词 | epitome |
释义 | epit·o·me 1. a. < purporting to be a translation from a French original although it is in fact but a meager epitome of it — Mary D. Anderson > b. < a convenient epitome of much current knowledge and belief — H.S.Bennett > c. < “five years of fighting and ninety-five of winding up barbed wire” … was a fair epitome of war's aftermath — Dixon Wecter > 2. < his manner of receiving my aunt and myself was an epitome of his urbane and appreciative attitude toward the universe — Siegfried Sassoon > < the British monarchy itself is the epitome of tradition — Richard Joseph > < my community … considers a man in uniform to be the living epitome of heroism — Lucius Garvin > 3. < the spectator does in epitome and without halt what the artist did slowly and by process of trial and error — F.J.Mather > Synonyms: see abridgment |
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