词汇释义
conspicuous UK /kənˈspɪk.ju.əs/ US /kənˈspɪk.ju.əs/ TEM8 TEM4 GRE
adj, If someone or something is conspicuous, people can see or notice them very easily. 显眼的，引人注目的
外刊例句
1. A further tweet revealed showed the tweets for the farcical sham they were: Paranoia ranking: N/A Considering the Patriots had just won their first title in a decade, New England's reserved clubhouse demeanor was conspicious.(The Guardian - Sport)
2. The statement acknowledged that air pollution is an increasingly "conspicious and discussed problem".(The Guardian)
3. Managers from the United Kindgom are usually conspicious by their absence at the Ballon d'Or but, coincidentally Ellis – who US side thrashed Sasaki's Japan in the final, was born in Portsmouth.(The Guardian - Sport)
4. He could have cited an even more conspicious trend--the "new" literary nonfiction...(The New Yorker)
5. Barbara couldn't bear being conspicious or having things out in the open, she preferred keeping them hidden.(The New Yorker)
6. By Richard Lockridge The New Yorker, April 24 , 1937P. 53 Mr. North wears dinner clothes, feeling very conspicious as he board the 23rd Street ferry.(The New Yorker)
7. Tells how Mitterand gave a post at the Opera to his most conspicious patron, Pierre Berge, the pres. of Yves Saint Laurent.(The New Yorker)
8. There were only two conspicious untoward incidents.(The New Yorker)
9. But this chap isn't a commuter; he simply likes to have a quick run after work, and the least conspicious place in midtown for that is Grand Central.(The New Yorker)
词汇搭配
be, feel, look, seem | become | make sb conspicuous
extremely, fairly, very conspicuous
conspicuous by your absence
词汇来源
1540s, "open to view, catching the eye," from Latin conspicuus "visible, open to view; attracting attention, striking," from conspicere "to look at, observe, see, notice," from assimilated form of com-, here probably an intensive prefix (see com-), + specere "to look at" (from PIE root *spek- "to observe").
Meaning "obvious to the mind, forcing itself upon the attention" is from 1610s; hence "eminent, notable, distinguished." Related: Conspicuously; conspicuousness. Phrase conspicuous by its absence (1859) is said to be from Tacitus ("Annals" iii.76), in a passage about certain images: "sed præfulgebant ... eo ipso quod effigies eorum non visebantur."
Conspicuous consumption "expenditure on a lavish scale to enhance prestige" is attested by 1895 in published writing of Norwegian-American economist and sociologist Thorstein Vebeln, made famous in his "The Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899).
近义词
brilliant, marked, noticeable, prominent, remarkable, striking
反义词
inconspicuous, unemphatic, unflamboyant, unnoticeable, unobtrusive, unremarkable, unshowy
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