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Pantheon Group Place Great Temple People 英 Pænθiən] 美

英语单词 pantheon
英美音标 英 ['pænθiən] 美 ['pænθiɑːn]
中文释义 n.万神殿;众神;名流;伟人
英语例句 (1) The amazing Pantheon has stopped me in my tracks .
(2) She has won her place in the pantheon of popular culture.
中文例句 (1) 神奇的万神殿当场让我驻足。
(2) 她在大众文化名流中获得了一席之地。
vocabulary简明 In the pantheon of great movie stars, Marilyn Monroe might well be considered the brightest of them all. The actual Pantheon was a temple built by the Romans — but we use it to mean any group of exalted figures.
vocabulary扩展 To place someone in a pantheon is to decide that they belong to a "club" whose members are all only the greatest people to have done the same thing. It's like a little temple of little gods. Tiger Woods, for example, definitely belongs in the pantheon of great golfers –– alongside Palmer, Nicklaus and Singh. If you want to see the real Pantheon, that is the building itself with the world's oldest concrete dome, then you'll have to go to Paris.
柯林斯解释
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]众神;诸神;要人;名流 You can refer to a group of gods or a group of important people as a pantheon .
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  [WRITTEN 笔语]
  • ...the birthplace of Krishna, another god of the Hindu pantheon.

    印度诸神之一克利须那的诞生地

  • ...the Communist Party's pantheon of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin.

    马克思、恩格斯、列宁和斯大林等共产党先贤们

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