1. Being learned in some branch of human knowledge is one thing; living in "public and illustrious thoughts," as Emerson would say, is something else. 在人类知识的某个分支中被研究是一回事；如爱默生所说，生活在“公众的和杰出的思想中”是另一回事。
2. The composer was one of many illustrious visitors to the town. 那位作曲家是许多造访过这个城市的杰出人物之一。
3. No, he would be a soldier, and return after long years, all war-worn and illustrious. 不，他更愿意当兵，过很多年才回来，变得伤痕累累，名噪天下。
4. They were jubilant with vanity over their new grandeur and the illustrious trouble they were making. 他们对自己的新光荣事迹和他们所制造的大麻烦洋洋得意，充满了虚荣心。
5. The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the kingdom, first ordered well their own States. 古代想要使天下人人都能发扬自己天赋的善良美德的人，必须先治理好自己的国家。
