prominent place/position• Now there is talk of recruiting blacks and Latinos, traditionally absent from the higher unionranks, to more prominent positions.• The cars were paintedkhaki with the red cross in a prominent position.• The Phillips curve gets a prominent place, but so do its limitations.• This year I bedded out a few of these house plants in a prominent position in the garden.• Further, public response to works in prominent positions is rarely commented on.• Wexford found the lead, obligingly left by Sheila in a prominent position on top of the refrigerator.• In our wishful thinking about the 1960s, no figures occupy a more prominent place than the Kennedys.• The popular daily press in the Edwardian years began to give quite a prominent place to sport.
Originprominent
(1400-1500)Latin present participle of prominere“to stick out”
VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITIONVERBS➤be突出▸➤become變得重要▸➤remain仍然突出ADVERB➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極為/相當/非常突出▸➤especially, particularly特別顯著;尤為突出▸➤increasingly越來越突出➤nationally (especially NAmE) 全國著名的➤socially (especially NAmE) 社會知名的PREPOSITION➤as作為⋯突出◇prominent as a player and coach作為運動員和教練知名的➤in在⋯方面重要◇prominent in the trade unions在各工會之間聲名顯赫