sublime

英[s?'bla?m] 美[s?'bla?m]

反義詞

比較級:?sublimer;最高級:?sublimest;副詞:?sublimely;名詞:?sublimity;

sublime 崇高的，壯觀的

sub-,在下，向上，-lim,門檻，界限，詞源同 limit.引申比喻義接近完美的界限，升華，使高尚。引申詞義崇高的，壯觀的。

sublime: sublime: [16] Sublime was borrowed from Latin sublīmis ‘lofty, exalted’. This was a compound adjective formed from the prefix sub- ‘under’ and probably līmen ‘lintel, threshold’ (a relative of līmes ‘boundary’, from which English gets limit). Sub- here probably has the force of ‘up to’, so that the word denotes etymologically ‘as high as the top of a door’. The same elements were used in the 1880s to coin subliminal, as a direct rendering of the German psychological term unter der schwelle des bewusstseins ‘below the threshold of consciousness’.
=> limit
sublime (adj.): 1580s, "expressing lofty ideas in an elevated manner," from Middle French sublime (15c.), or directly from Latin sublimis "uplifted, high, borne aloft, lofty, exalted, eminent, distinguished," possibly originally "sloping up to the lintel," from sub "up to" + limen "lintel, threshold, sill" (see limit (n.)). The sublime (n.) "the sublime part of anything, that which is stately or imposing" is from 1670s. For Sublime Porte, former title of the Ottoman government, see Porte.

1. the book celebrated the sublime joys of physical love.: 本書贊美了性愛帶來的無比美妙的愉悅。

2. At times the show veered from the sublime to the ridiculous.: 有時表演會突然從高雅而變得低俗。

3. He displayed a sublime indifference to the distinction between right and wrong.: 他對是非之間的差別根本就無動于衷。

4. She elevated every rare small success to the sublime.: 她把每一個極不起眼的小小成功都夸大成非凡的成就。

5. The administration's sublime incompetence is probably temporary.: 政府的極端軟弱無能或許只是暫時的。