par excellence
短语adv. 最卓越, 超群
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释义与例句
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1.
Most excellent, variously intending
Being the proper or truest example of a general name.
The Santo (which is St. Antonio's church, called il Santo par excellence) […]
At one time they were twenty-four in number; but Holland (1812) and Hughes (1814) found them reduced to ten; at Curzon's visit (1834) there were only seven; and in 1853 not more than four of these were inhabited by more than two or three monks. Meteora par excellence is the largest and perhaps the most ancient.
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2.
Most excellent, variously intending
Being a quintessential example of a general type.
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Because or on account of one's excellence.
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Most excellently, variously intending
Most especially, in particular, most notably (out of a thing or person's other attributes, roles, etc.).
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Most excellently, variously intending
In a superior way, in the most representative or fully-developed manner.
词源
Unadapted borrowing from French par excellence (“excellently, in an especially representative way; above all”), a calque of Latin per excellentiam, itself a calque of Ancient Greek κατ’ ἐξοχήν (kat’ exokhḗn).
来源：wiktionary