fame

• n. 名聲，名望；傳聞，傳說
• vt. 使聞名，使有名望

來自PIE*bha, 說，告知，詞源同phone, fable.引申為眾人皆知的，有名聲。

fame

fame: [13] Etymologically, fame is ‘being talked about’. The word comes via Old French fame from Latin fāma ‘talk, reputation’. This in turn goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *bha- ‘speak’, which also produced English confess, fable, fate, ineffable, etc. The derivatives famous and infamous are both 14thcentury acquisitions.
=> confess, fable, fairy, fate, ineffable, profess

fame (n.)

early 13c., "character attributed to someone;" late 13c., "celebrity, renown," from Old French fame "fame, reputation, renown, rumor" (12c.), from Latin fama "talk, rumor, report; reputation, public opinion; renown, good reputation," but also "ill-fame, scandal, reproach," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (cognates: Sanskrit bhanati "speaks;" Latin fari "to say," fabula "narrative, account, tale, story;" Armenian ban, bay "word, term;" Old Church Slavonic bajati "to talk, tell;" Old English boian "to boast," ben "prayer, request;" Greek pheme "speech, voice, utterance, a speaking, talk," phone "voice, sound," phanai "to speak;" Old Irish bann "law").

The goddess Fama was the personification of rumor in Roman mythology. The Latin derivative fabulare was the colloquial word for "speak, talk" since the time of Plautus, whence Spanish hablar.

I've always been afraid I was going to tap the world on the shoulder for 20 years, and when it finally turned around I was going to forget what I had to say. [Tom Waits, "Playboy" magazine interview, March, 1988]

1. Vivienne Westwood has scaled the heights of fashion's hall of fame.

薇薇恩·韋斯特伍德已成為時裝界的翹楚。

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2. Such roles are small beer compared with the fame she once enjoyed.

和她曾經享有的名氣相比，這樣的角色真的算不了什麽。

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3. At the height of his fame, his every word was valued.

在他聲名鼎盛之時，他的每句話都受到重視。

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4. Some people want fame or riches — I just wanted a baby.

有人希望得到名望，有人希望獲得財富——我隻想要個孩子。

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5. Affleck catapulted to fame after picking up an Oscar.

摘得奧斯卡獎後，阿弗萊克一舉成名。

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