personage

• n. 要人；角色；名士

来自person,人，-age,集合名词后缀。字面意思即一群人，其原义略带讽刺，后词义褒义化。

personage (n.)

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).

1. She is stately in personage.

她仪容端庄.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

2. He is fast becoming a personage.

他很快成为名人.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

3. How that personage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you.

大家不用我说也能想象到,这个“独腿水手”是如何在梦里折磨我的.

来自英汉文学 - 金银岛

4. There is no evidence for such a historical personage.

没有证据表明存在这样一位历史人物。

来自辞典例句

5. Then Foxy Davis had seemed a debonair remotely superior, and glamorous personage.

当时的“狐狸”戴维斯还是个无忧无虑、稍带矜持 、 风流潇洒的人物.

来自辞典例句