accolade

英 ['?k?le?d; ,?k?'le?d] 美['?k?led]

GRE低頻詞

復(fù)數(shù):?accolades;

accolade 贊揚(yáng)

前綴ac-同ad-. 詞根col, 轉(zhuǎn)，領(lǐng)口，同collar,領(lǐng)口。該詞原指封騎士時(shí)的擁抱儀式，后指贊揚(yáng)。

accolade: accolade: [17] Accolade goes back to an assumed Vulgar Latin verb *accollāre, meaning ‘put one’s arms round someone’s neck’ (collum is Latin for ‘neck’, and is the source of English collar). It put in its first recorded appearance in the Proven?al noun acolada, which was borrowed into French as accolade and thence made its way into English. A memory of the original literal meaning is preserved in the use of accolade to refer to the ceremonial striking of a sword on a new knight’s shoulders; the main current sense ‘congratulatory expression of approval’ is a later development.
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accolade (n.): 1620s, from French accolade (16c.), from Proven?al acolada or Italian accollata, ultimately from noun use of a fem. past participle from Vulgar Latin *accollare "to embrace around the neck," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + collum "neck" (see collar (n.)).

The original sense is of an embrace about the neck or the tapping of a sword on the shoulders to confer knighthood. Extended meaning "praise, award" is from 1852. Also see -ade. Earlier was accoll (mid-14c.), from Old French acolee "an embrace, kiss, especially that given to a new-made knight," from verb acoler. The French noun in the 16c. was transformed to accolade, with the foreign suffix.

1. Four restaurants have been awarded the highest accolade of a three - star rating .: 四家餐館獲授予三星級(jí) 餐館的最高榮譽(yù)稱(chēng)號(hào).

2. Ari Hart recently received the accolade of being represented in the Museum of Modern Art.: 阿里·哈特的作品最近有幸獲選在現(xiàn)代藝術(shù)館展出。

3. The Nobel prize has become the ultimate accolade in the sciences.: 諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)已成為科學(xué)界的最高榮譽(yù)。

4. Strangely, the yen may be the more deserving of that accolade.: 奇怪的是, 日元或許更配得上這個(gè)榮譽(yù)稱(chēng)號(hào).

5. Being better than China Mobile is not a great accolade, of course.: 比中移動(dòng)強(qiáng)一些, 當(dāng)然不是多高的贊美.