英:[prɪˈfɜ:mənt]
美:[ˈfɜrmənt]
英:[prɪˈfɜ:mənt]
美:[ˈfɜrmənt]
pre·fer·ment
prih fuhr mnt
词根:prefer
adj.preferred 优先的;首选的
preferential 优先的;选择的;特惠的;先取的
adv.preferentially 优先地;优惠地
n.preference 偏爱,倾向;优先权
v.preferred 偏爱(prefer的过去分词)
vi.prefer 喜欢;愿意
vt.prefer 更喜欢;宁愿;提出;提升
noun
the act of promoting or being promoted to a higher position or office.Preferment eluded young professors who would not grind out papers for publication regardless of quality.
a position or office giving social or monetary advantages.
15世纪中期, preferrement,“推动事业的进展; 提升或晋升地位; 先前的权利或要求”,源自 prefer 和 -ment。从1530年代开始,特别是在教会中,“一个更高的职位或职务”。
The first known use of preferment was in the 15th century
prefix1 of 2verb
to place in frontespecially: to add as a prefix
prefix a syllable to a word
prefix2 of 2noun
a letter or group of letters that comes at the beginning of a word and has a meaning of its own
prefix1 of 2verb
to place in frontespecially: to add as a prefix
prefix a syllable to a word
prefix2 of 2noun
a letter or group of letters that comes at the beginning of a word and has a meaning of its own
prefigureverb
to show, suggest, or announce by an earlier type, image, or likeness
the first crocus prefigures the arrival of spring
to picture or imagine beforehand
prefigure the outcome of the game
preferverb
to choose or like better than another
prefer dark clothes
to present for action or consideration
prefer charges against a thief
prefermentnoun
advancement or promotion in dignity, office, or rank
a position or office of honor or importance
1 Coffee is usually the Westerns' first choice, while tea is the preferment of Chinese.
许多西方人会选咖啡,而中国人则会选茶。
2 He had been amongst us rather more than two years; and although an ordained priest in the Church of England, and a man of considerable ability, was without preferment, and, apparently, content to remain so.
3 But the misery and degradation of his own people appealed to him more strongly than the splendor and preferments of the Egyptian court.
4 A faction from one section of a colony struggled with enemies from another over place and preferment, and so on.
5 The Windsor framework agreement, a dead duck, brought into existence by shady promises of future preferment with grubby rewards and potential gongs to MPs.
6 There are few who will not quit old kindness for new preferment.
7 MPs’ natural wish to support their prime minister, their own ambitions for preferment and the whips’ cruel ways all make for a reluctance to rock the boat.
8 The reservoir of MPs willing to trade their integrity for preferment is drying up a little.
9 His father, perceiving that this would be an obstacle in the way of his son's preferment, endeavored by words, and even very severe measures, to persuade him to change his conduct.
10 Prominent Democratic politicians still think that conspicuous loyalty to their party will bring respect and future preferment.
11 “Sailor Joe” Shaw, the brother of Mayor Frank Shaw, was selling the answers to police civil service exams and other preferments right out of his City Hall office.
12 The idea that this man could for a moment be controlled by any selfish motive, by the hope of preferment, by the fear of losing a supposed annuity, is simply absurd.
13 Excellent preferments in the Church became his at an early age, and through many stages of favour he became Archbishop of Canterbury in his forty-ninth year.
14 It has been said that he accepted the College living of Moreton Pinkney in Northamptonshire, but he certainly never went into residence there, and refused other offers of preferment.
15 Dispensations for children to hold preferment were an abuse of old date, as we have seen in a former chapter.
16 He was told by the governors that he could expect no further preferment.
他被董事们告之晋升无望了。
17 He has instead relied on preferment from others.”
18 Rex Tillerson’s preferment at the State Department perhaps is Donald Trump’s best answer to the clamor about Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
19 If they want preferment, they must be loyal to their party leader and future prime minister.
20 At Oxford, where he had resided up to the time of his recent preferment, the ladies had quite given him up.
2 晋升
promotion rise elevation exaltation promote proceed ascend advancement make mount climb elevate move up
4 提出
presentation proposal offer return present address carry suggest raise advance prefer extract pose render tender propound bid come forth weigh in with trace out production exhibition lodgement presentment lodgment scrub give start set put bring file produce enter subject launch introduce submit lay exhibit propose lodge hammer moot proffer interpose porrect
5 高位
noble august honor height rank standing purple dignity eminence pride of place high place quality altitude honour perch highness mightiness royal high-ranking state station elevation
6 提拔