[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]声誉；名望 If you achieve fame, you become very well-known. claim to fame→see:
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At the height of his fame, his every word was valued...
在他声名鼎盛之时，他的每句话都受到重视。
The film earned him international fame.
这部电影为他赢得了国际声望。
...her rise to fame and fortune as a dramatist.
她成为名利双收的剧作家
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fame★/feɪm; NAmEfeɪm/noun[uncountable ]the state of being known and talked about by many people 名声；声誉；名气◆to achieve/wininstant fame立即获得╱迅即赢得名声◆to rise/shoot to fameovernight 一夜之间成名◆Andrew Lloyd Webber of ‘Evita’ fame (= famous for ‘Evita’)以《埃维塔》成名的安德鲁 · 劳埃德 · 韦伯◆The town's only claim to fameis that there was once a riot there. 这个镇唯一出名之处就是那里有过一次暴乱。◆She went to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune.她为追逐名利去了好莱坞。☞see also
famous
fame/feɪm; NAmEfeɪm/
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famefame /feɪm/ ●●○ noun [uncountable]
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the state of being known about by a lot of people because of your achievements: He claims he is not really interested in fame.of ... fame (=used to show what someone is famous for) Muhammad Ali, of boxing fameCOLLOCATIONSverbswin/gain fame· He won fame when he appeared in the film ‘The Graduate’.achieve/find fame· Amy Johnson found fame as a pilot.bring/win somebody/something fame· Chomsky’s theories about language brought him fame.rise to fame (=become famous)· She rose to fame during the early Sixties.shoot to fame (=become famous very suddenly)· She shot to fame as a result of her victory in the Olympics.seek fame (=try to become famous)· He sought fame in the jazz clubs of New York.enjoy fame (=be famous)· The town briefly enjoyed fame as the location of a popular television series.adjectivesinternational/worldwide fame· Edinburgh achieved international fame as a centre of medical education.national fame· Her oil paintings won her national fame.lasting fame (=being famous for a long time)· Diderot gained lasting fame as the editor of the French Encyclopaedia.brief fame (=being famous for a short time)· Ed achieved brief fame as a pop singer in the late 1980s.instant fame· The success of her first novel brought her instant fame.great fame· His acting ability brought him great fame.new-found fame· Anna was finding it difficult to get used to her new-found fame.phrasessomebody’s/something’s rise to fame· Her rise to fame has been astonishingly rapid.at the height of somebody’s/something’s fame (=when someone was most famous)· At the height of his fame, he could earn $5,000 a day.somebody’s/something’s claim to fame (=reason for being famous)· One of his main claims to fame is having invented the electric light bulb.fame and fortune (=being rich and famous)· He came to London to seek fame and fortune.
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名声(67%)，名望(29%)，使出名(4%)
n.名声，名望；传闻，传说
vt.使闻名，使有名望
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