pomp: [14] Greek pompé meant literally ‘sending’ (it was derived from the verb pémpein ‘send’). But it came to be used metaphorically for a ‘solemn procession or parade’ (as being something that was ‘sent out’ on its way), and hence for the concomitant ‘display’ or ‘ostentation’, and passed with these senses into Latin as pompa. They survived into English, but ‘procession’ has gradually died out.
pomp (n.)
c. 1300, from Old French pompe "pomp, magnificence" (13c.) and directly from Latin pompa "procession, pomp," from Greek pompe "solemn procession, display," literally "a sending," from pempein "to send." In Church Latin, used in deprecatory sense for "worldly display, vain show."
实用例句
1. all the pomp and ceremony of a royal wedding
王室婚礼的盛大场面与仪式
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2. The official was accompanied by all the pomp of his high position.
那位官员所到之处威风十足.
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3. The coronation was conducted with great pomp.
加冕礼盛大而隆重.
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4. The Prince was welcomed with warmth, but not with all the pomp and circumstance he was used to.
王子受到了热烈的欢迎, 不过没有他所习惯的隆重仪式.
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5. He strongly opposed the ceremonial pomp of the Confucians.
