| 单词 | grand prize |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrand prize grand prize n. [after French grand prix (see Grand Prix n.)] the highest prize awarded in a lottery or competition, esp. one for products in some particular line at an exhibition; cf. Grand Prix n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > token of victory or supreme excellence > [noun] > prize > for products or work exhibited grand prize1755 prize1762 Grand Prix1866 1755 E. Thompson Sailor's Lett. (1767) I. xviii. 135 Your dread is poverty,—a dread I have little conception of, when I flatter myself with the grand prize in the Heliconian lottery. 1798 Monthly Mag. 5 291/2 The grand prize was adjudged to, 1. Pierre Bouillon, a native of Thiviers, in the department of Dordogne. 1866 London Gaz. 26 June 3645/2 Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867... 17 grand prizes, each of the value of 2000 f. 1880 Rep. Paris Univ. Exhib. 1878 II. 365 100 Grand Prizes and exceptional awards in money. 1927 Motor Boating Sept. 168/1 The engine used by Mr. Putnam was a D class machine and he won the grand prize and the Elgin watch as well as a special Elto cup. 1999 Sci. Amer. Apr. 103/3 Edison may well have been the ‘Inventor of the age’, as he was orotundly described in the Grand Prize that he won at the Universal Exposition of 1878 in Paris. < as lemmas |
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