c. 1500, "loftiness, height," from Middle French grandeur, from Old French grandor "size, height, extent, magnitude; greatness" (12c.), from grand "great" (see grand (adj.)). "Being a word of late adoption, it retains the Fr. form -eur of the suffix." Extended sense of "majesty, stateliness" in English is first recorded 1660s.
雙語例句
1. Columns are usually intended in architecture to add grandeur and status.
圓柱在建筑中通常用來增添氣勢和顯示地位。
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2. Murphy's powerfully spoken Oedipus is an autocrat of iconic grandeur.
墨菲激情演繹的俄狄浦斯王是位圣像般威嚴的獨裁者。
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3. Only inside do you appreciate the church's true grandeur.
只有深入其中，你才能真正欣賞教堂的富麗堂皇。
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4. For sheer scale and grandeur, Leeds Castle in Kent takes some beating.
單從規模和氣勢來說，肯特的利茲城堡獨領風騷。
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5. He suggested that we suffer delusions of grandeur as a football nation.