sub·lime
adjective/səˈblaɪm/
/səˈblaɪm/
- of very high quality or great beauty
极佳的;绝美的 - sublime beauty
令人赞叹的美 - a sublime combination of flavours
搭配巧妙的几种味道 - The location of the hotel is sublime.
酒店的位置非常优越。
- sublime beauty
- (formal, often disapproving) (of a person’s behaviour or attitudes) extreme, especially in a way that shows they are not aware of what they are doing or are not concerned about what happens because of it
极端的;极端而盲目的;一味的 - the sublime confidence of youth
年轻人目空一切的自信 - He battled on, in the sublime conviction that he was in the right.
他继续战斗,坚信自己是对的。
- the sublime confidence of youth
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘dignified, aloof’): from Latin sublimis, from sub- ‘up to’ + a second element perhaps related to limen ‘threshold’, limus ‘oblique’.