1.We see Leon Prevant, who had a cameo in “Station Eleven,” start as a well-off shipping executive and end as something less exalted.
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ex·alt
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第三人称单数:exalts
现在分词:exalting
过去式:exalted
过去分词:exalted
exalter (n.)
词根:exalt
adj.exalted 高尚的;尊贵的;兴奋的
n.exaltation 得意洋洋,欣喜;提拔;举起
v.exalted 高举;赞扬;使激动(exalt的过去分词)
Verb
1. praise, glorify, or honor;
"extol the virtues of one's children"
"glorify one's spouse's cooking"
2. fill with sublime emotion; tickle pink (exhilarate is obsolete in this usage);
"The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"
"He was inebriated by his phenomenal success"
3. heighten or intensify;
"These paintings exalt the imagination"
4. raise in rank, character, or status;
"exalted the humble shoemaker to the rank of King's adviser"
promote, upgrade, prefer, elevate
约于1400年,“放出蒸汽,流出”,源自古法语 exalter(10世纪),来自拉丁语 exaltare “提高,升高”,由 ex “出,从内部出来”(见 ex-)和 altus “高”,字面意思是“长高”,源自 PIE 词根 *al-(2)“生长,滋养”。从15世纪初开始,“提升等级或荣誉”; 也有“赞美,颂扬”的意思。相关词汇: Exalted; exalting。
Middle English, from Latin exaltare, from ex- + altus high — more at old
The first known use of exalt was in the 15th century
exaltverb
to raise in rank, power, or character
to praise highly : glorify
exaltationnoun
the act of exalting : the state of being exalted
a greatly heightened sense of personal well-being, power, or importance
exaltverb
to raise in rank, power, or character
to praise highly : glorify
exalttransitive verb
to cause (virulence) to increasealso: to increase the virulence of exalt a virus by repeated rapid passage through susceptible hosts
virulence exalted by addition of mucin to a bacterial culture
1.We see Leon Prevant, who had a cameo in “Station Eleven,” start as a well-off shipping executive and end as something less exalted.
2.“Power” ’s obsessive fan base has exalted the show as fans like Campbell look to discuss, dissect and denounce the plot in real time.
3.The football boys gathered around their exalted coach, begging in vain for some reprieve.
4.The humble milking stool is exalted as a furniture shape of prototypical purity by hip designers such as Another Country, its proportions seeming to convey some sort of Platonic ideal.
5.As a very Black presenting Latina, I’m almost used to not seeing myself in Latino media, even when it is our culture that is being exalted.
6.And when Ms. O’Hara sings, we believe unconditionally in the fire, and why it both exalts and troubles her.
7.The exalted transfigurations of these moments in Cronenberg’s film highlight all the more the inadequacy of the drama.
8.Both were clearly of exalted birth; they looked like the sons of kings, but the face of one was deeply marked with lines of pain.
9.Mr. Williams, 58, is hardly a household name, even in contemporary art circles, although he is especially exalted among its most theoretical, navel-staring rings.
10.The domed central library stands next to Manchester town hall, a symbol of hope during the Great Depression, with a vast circular inscription from Proverbs exhorting citizens to "exalt wisdom and she shall promote thee".
11.But her magic is that all her exalted joy is suffused with the strength that only comes from sorrow.
12.The event, over two days, included many impressive wines, including an elegant, pure Pontet-Canet, but the bottle I can’t forget was the Mouton Rothschild, which stuck out in an exalted group.
13.To say that he more than held his own in this exalted company is to say a lot.
14.“The genius of ‘Lincoln,’ finally, lies in its vision of politics as a noble, sometimes clumsy dialectic of the exalted and the mundane,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
15.To put it in terms more consistent with the exalted language of the proceedings, the court seeks to comprehend what seems to be a profoundly irrational crime within the rigorous light of reason.
16.He shamelessly exalts his own role in the peace process.
17.Without being beholden to it, the record exalts the spirit of the ’70s, which Petty describes as “the era of album-oriented rock.”
18.She sings and dances, but she doesn’t even have to; she only has to be there in order to exalt Donna as a self-willed, supremely transformative powerhouse.
19.The fact that we are seeing two women, rather than a man and a woman, generalizes the emotion, exalts it, raises it from a fact to a principle.
20.“Oh, come let us adore Him, Oh, come let us adore Him”: a cathedral choir, an exalted music that moved Perry to tears—which refused to stop, even after the music did.