mid-15c., "body of a person" (with regard to appearance), from Old French personage "size, stature," also "a dignitary" (13c.), from Medieval Latin personaticum (11c.), from persona (see person). Meaning "a person of high rank or distinction" is attested from c. 1500 in English; as a longer way to say person, the word was in use from 1550s (but often slyly ironical, with suggestion that the subject is overly self-important).
雙語例句
1. She is stately in personage.
她儀容端莊.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
2. He is fast becoming a personage.
他很快成為名人.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
3. How that personage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you.
大家不用我說也能想象到,這個“獨腿水手”是如何在夢里折磨我的.
來自英漢文學 - 金銀島
4. There is no evidence for such a historical personage.
沒有證據表明存在這樣一位歷史人物。
來自辭典例句
5. Then Foxy Davis had seemed a debonair remotely superior, and glamorous personage.