词汇 | paean |
释义 | paeanWord family nounpaeonpaean Literaturepae·an /ˈpiːən/ noun [countableC] → peon literaryALPRAISE a happy song of praise, thanks, or victory 赞歌;感恩歌;凯歌 Examples from the Corpus paean• Giuliani turned his answer into a paean to the police.• It turns the essential artifice of this new delivery system into an asset, making the film seem a paean to plastic.• His first column was a paean to the ingenuity, resolve, and bravery represented by the massive Berlin airlift.• The end is no wild and glorious pagan racket, but rather a noble, meticulously layered paean.• Had he been, he would have made Michael Codron's chastisement seem like a love paean.• Many classic Tinseltown films are veritable paeans to white supremacy. (1500-1600) Latin “song to the Greek god Apollo”, from Greek paion, from Paion, name given to Apollo in the song |
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