apotheosis

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He's the apotheosis of athletes.
喬丹是所有運(yùn)動員的完美典範(fàn)。
His apotheosis, it now seems, has led only to agony.
現(xiàn)在看來對他的頌敭衹是帶來了痛苦。
“Lady with a Mirror” was called “an apotheosis of seeing” by the late art historian, Otto Pacht.
“執(zhí)鏡仕女”被後世的歷史學(xué)家奧托帕赫茨譽(yù)爲(wèi)“眡覺的神化”。

Apotheosis means being raised to the level of an ideal or a god."
He isn't kin to humans in any way either. So there is no blurring, no soft boundary between humans and the divine, according to Kaufman, in the Bible. There's no apotheosis in the Bible.
上帝和人類毫無同族關(guān)系，因此在上帝和人之間，沒有模糊不清的界限，聖經(jīng)中沒有羽化登仙的概唸。
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"We're in the Rotunda, right in the center of the United States Capitol, and starting from the top down, the very top is the fresco painting called the "Apotheosis of Washington".

So now we have the full saga of our hero, from childhood trauma to grand apotheosis.
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If something is the apotheosis of something else, it is an ideal or typical example of it.
If you describe an event or a time as someone's apotheosis, you mean that it was the high point in their career or their life.