单词详解 | tribute

tribute
音标
英音/ ˈtrɪbjuːt / 美音/ ˈtrɪbjuːt /

听听基本释意:

外刊例句
Bereaved relatives started a petition calling for a ban following complaints that tributes on graves were being damaged and that owners were not cleaning up after their pets.
失去亲人的亲属抱怨坟墓上的贡品遭到破坏,而且主人没有清理宠物的尸体,因此发起了请愿书,要求禁止该禁令。
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His pose has been emulated by fellow athletes, with Sweden’s pole vault champion Armand Duplantis paying tribute after breaking his own world record at the Games.
他的姿势得到了其他运动员的效仿,瑞典撑杆跳冠军阿曼德·杜普兰蒂斯在奥运会上打破了自己的世界纪录后向他致敬。
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Current England players Ben Stokes, Joe Root and Ben Duckett were among those to pay tribute, while retired England bowler Stuart Broad described him as a “wonderful person”.
现任英格兰球员本·斯托克斯、乔·鲁特和本·达克特都向他致敬,而退役的英格兰投球手斯图尔特·布罗德则形容他是一个“很棒的人”。
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基本释意
noun
something given or done as an expression of esteem
(表示敬意的)礼物,颂辞,行为;(良好效果或影响的)体现,显示;(尤指旧时一国向他国交纳的)贡品,贡金;<史>(用于支付矿工工资,或给矿厂主、出租人的)矿石份子

同义词
testimonial,protection

短释义
We’re most familiar with the use of the word tribute meaning to honor someone with words or an award. You can hear a tribute if you’re lucky enough to attend an entertainment awards ceremony, or need to attend a funeral. Students will give a retiring teacher flowers as a tribute to her years of service in education. Tribute can also mean a kind of payment that’s given from one nation to another.
致敬是尊重或钦佩的表示,是表彰一个人的成就的奖项。一位著名导演获得终身成就奖,以表彰他许多成功的电影。

长释义
We’re most familiar with the use of the word tribute meaning to honor someone with words or an award. You can hear a tribute if you’re lucky enough to attend an entertainment awards ceremony, or need to attend a funeral. Students will give a retiring teacher flowers as a tribute to her years of service in education. Tribute can also mean a kind of payment that’s given from one nation to another.
我们最熟悉“致敬”这个词的用法,意思是用言语或奖励向某人致敬。如果您有幸参加娱乐颁奖典礼或需要参加葬礼,您可以听到致敬声。学生们将向退休教师献花,以表彰她多年的教育服务。贡品也可以指一个国家给予另一个国家的一种付款。

文学例句
I wasn’t lying when I said my bar mitzvah was a tribute to my family killed during the Holocaust and the scores of relatives who never got the chance to be born.
当我说我的成人礼是为了纪念我在大屠杀期间遇难的家人以及数十名从未有机会出生的亲戚时,我并没有撒谎。
Linked by Gordon Korman

Though he fears he never does the circus justice in these clockwork tributes.
尽管他担心自己在这些发条致敬中永远无法公正地对待马戏团。
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

They all liked Jo immensely, but never fell in love with her, though very few escaped without paying the tribute of a sentimental sigh or two at Amy’s shrine.
他们都非常喜欢乔,但从未爱上她,尽管很少有人没有在艾米的神殿里感伤地叹一两声致敬而逃脱。
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

词源
tribute (n.)mid-14c., “stated sum of money or other valuable consideration paid by one ruler or country to another in acknowledgment of submission or as the price of peace or protection,” from Anglo-French tribute, Old French tribut and directly from Latin tributum “tribute, a stated payment, a thing contributed or paid,” noun use of neuter of tributus, past participle of tribuere “to pay, assign, grant,” also “allot among the tribes or to a tribe,” from tribus (see tribe). The sense of “offering, gift, token” is attested by 1580s.Related entries & more

下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
贡品(n.)mid-14c.,“一个统治者或国家向另一个统治者或国家支付的一笔金钱或其他有价值的报酬,以承认屈服或作为和平或保护的代价”,来自英法贡品,古法语贡品直接来自拉丁语 tributum “贡品,规定的付款,贡献或支付的东西”,名词使用 tributus 的中性词,tribuere 的过去分词“支付,分配,授予”,也“在部落之间分配或分配给部落, “源自 tribus(见部落)。 1580 年代证明了“奉献、礼物、象征”的含义。相关条目及更多


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