accolade
accolade 英 [ˈækəleɪd] 美 [ˈækəˌled, -ˌlɑd]
n. 荣誉；荣誉称号授予仪式；连谱号；称赞
名词复数:accolades
- A knight being honored with the tap of a sword-blade was the earliest form of accolade. Today, an accolade is more than a way to bestow knighthood, it is a form of praise or an award.
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- n. 荣誉；荣誉称号授予仪式；连谱号；称赞
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1. Strangely, the yen may be the more deserving of that accolade.
奇怪的是，日元或许更配得上这个荣誉称号。
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2. But it is his blog that has propelled him to celebrity status in China and earned him the accolade as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2009.
但是他的博客才是将他推上中国的名人地位并为他挣到了2009年《时代》杂志全球最具影响力100人的荣誉的真正帮手。
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3. Already number one for carbon emissions China earned another environmentally dubious accolade in July when it was declared the world’s biggest power consumer.
除了二氧化碳排放量世界第一之外，中国又赢得一个有关环境的“荣誉”——在七月声称成为世界能源消费第一大国。
- accolade (n.) 1620s, from French accolade "an embrace, a kiss" (16c.), from Provençal acolada or Italian accollata, ultimately from noun use of a fem. past participle of Vulgar Latin *accollare "to embrace around the neck," from Latin ad "to" (see ad-) + collum "neck" (see collar (n.)), from PIE root *kwel- (1) "revolve, move round."
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