Larger Than Life——非同凡響

** attracting special attenti-on because of unusual, flam-boyant appea-rance or beha-vior（因不尋常、華麗的外表或行為而引起特別注意。）

** seeming disproportion-ately important or grand（看起來不成比例地重要或宏偉）

~~ 非同凡響的；超群不凡的；傑出的；與眾不同的；有英雄色彩的；引人注目的；誇張的；耀眼的；大於真人或實物的。

~~ bigger than life；big as life; big personality； awe-inspiring； mind-blowing；eye-popping；jaw-dropping；eye-catching；heart-stopping.

!! "I see the [small] pupp-ets, the wheelbarrows, eve-rything as large as life," seen in Maria Edgeworth'sLame Jervas in print, 1799.

（“我看到[小]木偶、獨輪車，一切都與生命一樣大”見於一七九九年出版的瑪利亞 · 埃奇沃思的《跛腳的傑瓦斯》。）

!! Another use of "larger than life" conveys the idea of being on a grand or hero-ic scale.

（“大於生命”的另一種用法，傳達了宏大或英雄的概念。）

>> The president's expe-rience, personality and way of doing things are larger than life, leaving deep impr-essions to people.

（這位總統的經歷、個性及處事方式是非同凡響的，給人留下深刻印象。）

>> At last night's banquet, many of the attendees we-re larger than life.

（在昨晚的宴會上，眾多出席人物都是超群不凡之輩。）

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