单词 | superb |
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音标 | [sju:'pə:b] |
解释 | a.上乘的,出色的 |
红宝书 | 【英】 adj.上乘的,出色的( marked to the highest degree by grandeur, excellence, brilliance, or competence) 【记】 super(上等,超越)+ b 【例】 superb beauty(极度的美) |
字源 | superb (adj.) 1540s, "noble, magnificent" (of buildings, etc.), from Latin superbus "grand, proud, splendid; haughty, vain, insolent," from super "above, over" (see super-). The second element perhaps is from PIE root *bhe- "to be." General sense of "very fine" developed by 1729. Related: Superbious (c.1500); superbly. |
不择手段背单词 | 无 |
趣味全助记 | 【记】同super,看成super + ble;super + b b上面是A,最好的 |
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