| 词组 | fabulous |
| 释义 | fabulous A number of commentators disparage the weakened sense of fabulous, in which it becomes a sort of generalized word of approval. Given the taste of English speakers and writers for hyperbole, such a development seems inevitable. With a little care you can still use the word in a heightened sense, pregnant with the notion of being worthy of fable or legend. But the word carries the germ of its own weakening, as you may notice in these examples: • His manner was very much that of a man who has sailed strange seas and seen ... the fabulous buried cache of forgotten pirates' plundering —Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again, 1940 • The fabulous Jerry O'Shaugnessy, thinks Sam. In the old days, in the Party, they had made a legend of him —Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself, 1959 • ... a man fabulous, rather than famous, in many of the diplomatic and social salons of the Europe of his day —George F. Kennan, New Yorker, 1 May 1971 • ... tons upon tons of good winter wheat and other supplies were sent in fabulous quantities —Katherine Anne Porter, The Never-Ending Wrong, 1977 • ... recall how thirty-six years ago Hitler dominated the Olympic Games and turned them into such a fabulous propaganda success —William L. Shirer, Saturday Rev., 25 Mar. 1972 • ... the voice of a man divulging fabulous professional secrets —Roald Dahl, Someone Like You, 1953 • ... her final fabulous success as a real estate magnate —James Purdy, Cabot Wright Begins, 1964 |
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