lionization
noun [ U ] (UK usually lionisation) uk/ˌlaɪ.ə.naɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/ us/ˌlaɪ.ə.nəˈzeɪ.ʃən/
(将某人)视为名流,捧为名流
the act of making someone famous, or of giving someone a lot of attention and approval as if they were famous
The book's lionization of Wilson seems a little out of proportion. 这本书对威尔逊的溢美之词似乎有点脱离实情。
Despite her lionization by feminists, she was not terribly progressive on women's issues. 尽管她被女权主义者推崇备至,但她在女性问题上的观点并不是非常进步的。
See: lionize
- More examples
- Mr. Lewis takes the biographer's virtue of sympathy and stretches it into lionization.
- Diminishing and deconsecrating heroes disfigures the subject every bit as much as lionisation does.
- TV's lionization of fire fighters means that their faults are sometimes overlooked.