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词汇 example_english_well-known-figure
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well-known figure

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meanings of figure


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figure
noun[C]
uk /ˈfɪɡ.ər/ us /ˈfɪɡ.jɚ/
the symbol for a number or an amount expressed ...
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Examples of well-known figure


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The personal assistant is a well-knownfigure in politics.
We show that the well-knownfigure-eight orbit of the three-body problem is linearly stable.
I am an orator, and you are not, and there is a well-knownfigure of speech called hyperbole.
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The town mayor is a popular and well-knownfigure.
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I notice that a well-knownfigure in the trade has expressed himself somewhat forcibly on the question of these committees.
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I was a well-knownfigure in their exercises.
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The purpose is to prevent the detainee asking that intimation be made to some well-knownfigure with whom the detainee has no connection whatever.
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One can hardly improve on that well-knownfigure of speech.
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He is a well-knownfigure in my college.
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He was a well-knownfigure throughout the country.
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The first was that a friend of mine, a very well-knownfigure in public life, asked me, in my own interest, to drop the case.
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One of them took place at a private reception and it would be invidious to mention the editor's name, although he is a well-knownfigure.
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He was a well-knownfigure abroad before he was prominent here, and his international interests led him to be an ardent advocate of peace.
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Particularly in rural areas he tends to be a well-knownfigure.
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A well-knownfigure in this country has stated that we are giving too much attention to post-war questions.
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There is a well-knownfigure which one can always trace through political history from the time when men were politicians at all, and that is the aristocrat turned revolutionary.
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I read recently of a well-knownfigure who is violently opposed to wage increases—wages, not incomes—and who is much in favour of wage restraint and wage reduction.
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Any young man in this country is in a position to blackmail a man who is in a position of responsibility, or who is a well-knownfigure in this country.
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Portraying a well-knownfigure was something she found challenging; in preparation, she conducted extensive research and worked with a dialect coach for two months.
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Kolstad is a well-knownfigure nationally, and often participates in public debates relating to his fields of expertise.
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