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lionization
noun[ U ]
(UK usuallylionisation)uk /ˌlaɪ.ə.naɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌlaɪ.ə.nəˈzeɪ.ʃən/
the act of making someone famous, or of giving someone a lot of attention and approval as if they were famous: （将某人）视为名流，捧为名流
The book's lionization of Wilson seems a little out of proportion.这本书对威尔逊的溢美之词似乎有点脱离实情。
Despite her lionization by feminists, she was not terribly progressive on women's issues. 尽管她被女权主义者推崇备至，但她在女性问题上的观点并不是非常进步的。
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Mr. Lewis takes the biographer's virtue of sympathy and stretches it into lionization.
Diminishing and deconsecrating heroes disfigures the subject every bit as much as lionisation does.
TV's lionization of fire fighters means that their faults are sometimes overlooked.
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