2VALUEsomething that is very valuable to you or that it is very important to have 有价值的事物,宝贵的事物
Fame was the prize.
名声重于一切。
3no prizes for guessing somethingspokenGUESS used to say that it is very easy to guess something 某事一猜就知
No prizes for guessing what she was wearing.
一猜便知她穿的是什么。
Examples from the Corpus
no prizes for guessing something• There are no prizes for guessing why this should be.• Enclosed his picture - no prizes for guessing his breed.
nCOLLOCATIONS
verbs
win a prize (also take a prize)
She won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1938.
Ms Brolls also took the prize for best individual speaker.
get a prize (also receive a prize formal)
The winner gets a prize.
If your letter is published, you will receive a £5 prize.
share a prize
They will share the first prize of £500.
give (somebody) a prize (also award (somebody) a prize formal)
A prize will be given for the best-decorated egg.
Four years later he was awarded the Erasmus Prize.
a prize goes to somebody (=they get it)
The fiction prize goes to Carol Shields.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + prize
first/second etc prize
She won first prize in a poetry competition.
the top prize
The film won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
a consolation prize (=one given to someone who has not won)
The runner-up will get a consolation prize of a camera.
the booby prize (=one given as a joke to the person who comes last)
The cake I made for the competition was so bad I got the booby prize.
a cash prize
There's a $5,000 cash prize for the winner.
prize + NOUN
a prize winner
Congratulations to all the prize winners!
prize money
The players are demanding an increase in prize money.
a prize drawBritish EnglishBrE (=a competition in which people whose names or tickets are chosen by chance win prizes)
He won the car in a prize draw.
Examples from the Corpus
prize• She's going to marry Simon, but I don't think he's much of a prize.• In fact, there's a prize for the person who can find a Colin Chapman in the most Lotus-like position.• She won the Booker Prize for her novel 'The BlindAssassin'.• All this, special guests and fabulousprizes, too.• First prize is a trip to Orlando.• New York State, with 33 votes in the electoralcollege, is seen as a majorprize.• There are no prizes for guessing why this should be.• A list of prizewinners will appear in net week's issue.• Second prize is a book token.• It was as if the merepresence of the prize made each man doubt his own wisdom.• The prize for the year's best book other than fiction goes to Gwyn Thomas and Margaret Jones for their thirdcollaboration.• The prize is a 3-week holiday in the Bahamas.• Their prize was a new Championbassboat and Evinrude engine.
prizes ... awarded• Can prizes be awarded without compromising the very foundation on which NationalCertificateassessment is built?• Cashprizes were also awarded for Saturday's event.• For the first time at the 1987/8 AwardsCeremony, prizes were awarded to National Certificate students.• It is the fourth of the prizes to be awarded this year.• Mr Grant said the prizes had been awarded by a marketing company with which Sutton Hall was no longer associated.• The prizes will be awarded to the individual or company named on the winning entry form.• Variousprizes were awarded for each category.• They all used to have a bath after school, and at the end of the year prizes were awarded.
prize2 ●○○ verb [transitiveT]
1VALUEto think that someone or something is very important or valuable 珍视,高度重视
He is someone who prizes truth and decency above all things.
他把真理和正派看得高于一切。
The company’s shoes are highly prized by fashion conscious youngsters.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + PRIZE | PRIZE + VERB | PRIZE + NOUN | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤big, great, prestigious大獎;享有盛名的獎項➤fabulous令人難以置信的獎▸➤special特別獎➤ultimate終極大獎◇The presidency is the ultimate prize.總統的職位是最高的獎勵。➤coveted令人垂涎的獎品◇She was the first woman to win this coveted prize.她是第一位贏得這個令人垂涎的獎項的女性。➤glittering (especially BrE) 輝煌的成就◇He strove for the glittering prizes of politics.他力爭在政界取得輝煌的成績。➤first, first-place, grand, top頭獎;最高獎;巨獎▸➤runner-up, second二等獎▸➤consolation安慰獎▸➤booby末名獎◇The booby prize was awarded to the worst singer in the competition.末名獎頒給了比賽中最差的歌手。➤cash, monetary, money (especially BrE) 現金獎;獎金➤$1-million, etc. * 100 萬美元等的獎金➤raffle抽獎的獎品VERB + PRIZE➤award (sb), give (sb)授予(某人)獎項➤offer提供獎金▸➤present頒獎◇The prize was presented by the mayor.獎項由市長頒發。➤capture, claim, collect, get, receive, take, win奪得/承兌/領取/獲得/收到/拿走/贏得獎項▸➤accept領獎➤share分享獎項◇De Klerk shared the peace prize with Nelson Mandela in 1993.德克勒克與納爾遜・曼德拉分享了 1993 年的諾貝爾和平獎。PRIZE + VERB➤go to sb/sth獎項由⋯獲得◇The prize went to the long-haired cat.獎項由那隻長毛貓獲得。➤be worth sth, total sth獎品價值⋯/總額達⋯◇a prize worth over $3 000價值 3,000 多美元的獎品PRIZE + NOUN➤winner (usually prizewinner)獲獎者▸➤money獎金▸➤competition, draw (BrE) 大獎賽;抽獎PREPOSITION➤prize for⋯領域的獎◇He won the Nobel Prize for Literature.他榮獲諾貝爾文學獎。➤prize in⋯的獎◇prizes in chemistry, physics and medicine化學、物理和醫學獎prize
verb
PREPOSITION | PHRASESPREPOSITION➤above比⋯更珍視◇a precious thing to be prized above all else比其他所有東西都更被看重的珍品➤as珍視為⋯◇The library is prized as the finest of its kind in England.這家圖書館被認為是英格蘭同類圖書館中最好的。➤for因⋯而珍視◇The berries are prized for their healing properties.這些漿果因有治療功能而備受喜愛。PHRASES➤highly prized, much prized備受青睞◇two fruits that are much prized on the island這個島上人們非常喜愛的兩種水果