Eminent

(adj.) of imposing height; especially standing out above others; 'an eminent peak'; 'lofty mountains'; 'the soaring spires of the cathedral'; 'towering icebergs' .

(adj.) standing above others in quality or position; 'people in high places'; 'the high priest'; 'eminent members of the community' .

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• I have taken a book written by one eminent professor and evidently approved by others, for they use it as a text-book. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Among the earlier names, that of Dr. Gilbert (1540-1603), of Colchester, is pre-eminent. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In the former situation, we are likely to find the universities filled with the most eminent men of letters that are to be found in the country. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Robert Stephenson was the engineer of this great structure, aided by the suggestions of Fairbairn and other eminent engineers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• An eminent physiologist thinks it worth while 'to try and place life on a physical basis. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Jackson, an eminent chemist of the same city. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In those countries, the universities are continually draining the church of all its most eminent men of letters. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In the early part of 1881 there was sent from Paris to Glasgow a so-called box of electric energy for inspection and test by Sir William Thomson, the eminent electrician. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Osborne went to the West Indies, where he became an eminent lawyer, and made money. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Stumpy and Rowdy, to lie in the cellars of those eminent bankers until the same period should arrive. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• How you have escaped them I can't imagine, says the eminent traveller, lighting his cheroot again, and staring hard at Mr. Franklin. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The eminent traveller did me the honour of waking up in an instant, and asking me who I was. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• In the treatment of chilblains we give a detailed list of formulas from the works and practice of a number of the most eminent physicians and surgeons. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Mrs. Churchill had been recommended to the medical skill of an eminent person there, and had otherwise a fancy for the place. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I am told he is an eminent philanthropist--which is decidedly against him, to begin with. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Not one man in a thousand has accuracy of eye and judgment sufficient to become an eminent breeder. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Now, with reference to placing Mr. Richard with some sufficiently eminent practitioner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Says Lamartine of the writings of Palissy, they are real treasures of human wisdom, divine piety, and eminent genius, as well as of great simplicity, vigor, and copiousness of style. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Sir Astley Cooper, the eminent surgeon, said to Robert Stephenson, when the latter called to see him about a new road, Your scheme is preposterous in the extreme. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It is due to his discoveries and publications, combined with those of the eminent men on the continent, above referred to, that agricultural chemistry arose to the dignity of a science. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Charles Darwin possessed both these mental characteristics in an eminent degree. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• His correspondence was sought for by the most eminent philosophers of Europe. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Eminent Scientific Men who have Made Ventilation a Study. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• This was shown to an eminent engineer for his opinion. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• They are generally the disciples of some eminent professor or sophist, whom they rather imitate than understand. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Liston, an eminent English surgeon, performed the operation of amputating the thigh while the patient was under the influence of ether. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In 1879 that eminent English scientist, Prof. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It has been stated by that eminent specialist in steam engineering, Prof. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• He had the advice of an eminent oculist; and he eventually recovered the sight of that one eye. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Why, it may be asked, until recently did nearly all the most eminent living naturalists and geologists disbelieve in the mutability of species? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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