| 单词 | in honour of somebody/something |
| 释义 | in honour of somebody/somethingin honour of somebody/something a) in order to show how much you admire and respect someone 为了表示对某人/某事物的崇敬 The stadium was named in honour of the club’s first chairman. 该体育馆以俱乐部的第一任主席命名以示纪念。 in somebody’s honour A special dinner will be held in her honour. 将举办一次特别晚宴向她致敬。 b) to celebrate an event 纪念某事 An oak tree was planted in honour of the occasion. 种下了一棵橡树以纪念这一盛会。 Examples from the Corpus in honour of somebody/something• He was at a banquet in honour of a Little League team of which his son Robert was a member.• Martin Karplus of Harvard University touched on the issue at a conference in honour of Pople in 1990.• It was erected in honour of the Emperor and his two sons Caracalla and Geta for their victories in Mesopotamia.• It was named in honour of our departed hero.• But this was nothing: many things that are hard to obtain had been obtained in honour of this scent.• In 472 this feast succeeded to the torchlight procession in honour of Persephone, and that of the Lupercalia.• They called it Schiaparelli, in honour of a hero of the art of astronomy. → in honour of somebody/something at honour1(1) |
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