homage
homage 英 [ˈhɒmɪdʒ] 美 [ˈhɑmɪdʒ]
n. 敬意；尊敬；效忠
名词复数:homages
- Homage means great respect and honor, or something done to honor a person or thing. We pay homage to our ancestors and say prayers in homage to their memory.
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- n. 敬意；尊敬；效忠
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1. The friend left these pictures as an homage to the painter.
那位朋友留下这些画,来表达对画家的敬意
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2. His work is a homage to the female body, often allowing his materials to direct the shape and curves of his subject.
他的作品传达了对女性身体的敬意，这通常就使得他的作品主题都直指曲线与轮廓。
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3. If actual grandparents are not at hand, no family should have too hard a time finding substitute ones to whom to give unfeigned homage.
如果实际生活中祖父母不在身边，没有哪个家庭会艰辛的为了找到替代祖父母们让我们给以真诚的尊敬。
- homage (n.) c. 1300, "ceremony or act of acknowledging one's faithfulness to a feudal lord; feudal allegiance," earlier "body of vassals of a feudal king" (early 13c.), from Old French omage, homage "allegiance or respect for one's feudal lord" (12c., Modern French hommage), from homme "man," in Medieval Latin "a vassal," from Latin homo (genitive hominis) "man" (see homunculus). Figurative sense of "reverence, honor shown" is from late 14c.
- homage (v.) 1590s (agent noun homager is from c. 1400), from homage (n.). Related: Homaged; homaging.
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