critical acclaim• Buoyed by critical acclaim for the 1970 Brooklyn season, Alvin and his dancers faced a year without any significant employment.• Lamboume's work is not widely known today, yet during the 1950S he received great critical acclaim.• Between 1907 and 1942 Freeman produced forty Thorndyke short stories and twenty-one Thorndyke novels, to great critical acclaim.• Voice over Their show at the Pegassus Theatre in Oxford brought much critical acclaim.• Such success stories do not rely on good reviews or critical acclaim for big sales and widespreadpopularity.• Paulo has received critical acclaim for his pop-jazz.• Chris Menges' directorialdebut which received critical acclaim and festivalawards throughout the world.
Originacclaim1
(1500-1600)Latinacclamare, from ad-“to” + clamare“to shout”
ADJECTIVE | VERB + ACCLAIM | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤great高度的讚揚▸➤general, universal, wide, widespread普遍的稱讚;一致的稱賞;廣泛的讚揚▸➤popular, public人人稱讚;公眾的稱許▸➤critical評論界的讚揚◇Her latest novel has won great critical acclaim.她最新創作的小說贏得了評論界的高度讚揚。➤international, national, worldwide國際社會的/全國的/全世界的稱讚VERB + ACCLAIM➤deserve, earn (sb), gain (sb), garner, meet with, receive, win值得讚揚;(為某人)贏得喝彩;得到稱讚;受到讚揚◇His discoveries earned him wide acclaim.他的發現為他贏得了廣泛讚譽。PREPOSITION➤to... acclaim受到⋯的好評◇The play opened last week to universal acclaim.這齣戲上週上演後獲得一致好評。➤acclaim for因⋯受到稱讚◇She received international acclaim for her performance.她的表演飲譽國際。➤acclaim from來自⋯的讚揚◇acclaim from the critics評論家們的讚揚acclaim
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PHRASES➤be critically acclaimed, be highly acclaimed, be internationally acclaimed, be widely acclaimed被評論界稱讚;受到高度讚揚;贏得國際讚譽;獲得廣泛稱許◇This book has been widely acclaimed as a modern classic.這本書被廣泛譽為現代的經典之作。