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发音：[ˌæproʊˈbeɪʃ(ə)n]
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例句：
- Approbation is a formal word for approval or praise.
- President Trump received widespread approbation for striking an optimistic, bipartisan tone in his first speech to Congress on Feb. 28, 2017.
- In fourth place among analysts’ darlings was Orbital Sciences Corp., which enjoyed the unanimous approbation of nine analysts.
- The campaign has won widespread approbation from a variety of sources in and out of the data security industry.
- Some of the loudest voices have displayed astonishing hypocrisy on this issue, with celebrities deserving the most approbation.
- While some medical interventions such as organ transplants to replace malfunctioning livers and kidneys, or vaccines to boost the immune system, command wide social acceptance, others invite moral approbation.
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解释：
- Approbation这个单词为名词，其表示“official approval or recognization”这一含义，即正式的“认可/赞美/称赞”，与approval/praise/endorsement/favor等单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- Politicians rely on the public’s approbation to get elected.（政治家依靠公众的认可来当选。）
—Politics - The company has even received the approbation of its former critics.（该公司甚至得到了前批评者的认可。）
—Business - The slow embrace of the comic-book medium by elite audiences is a history with its own particular milestones, each marking a moment of sudden approbation by previously disapproving constituencies.（精英群体对漫画媒介的缓慢接受是一段有其特定里程碑的历史，每个里程碑都标志着以前不赞成的选民突然赞同的时刻。）
—Culture - The child resists the temptation to misconduct in school, chiefly because it respects the authority and desires to win the approbation of father and mother.（孩子抵制住在学校做错事的诱惑，主要是因为他尊重权威，渴望赢得父母的认可。）
—Culture - What becomes central is not the suffering, trauma and violation that the boys suffer, but the social approbation which would diminish the respectability of that community.（核心问题不是男孩们所遭受的痛苦、创伤和侵犯，而是社会的认可，这将削弱该社区的尊重。）
—Society - Mr. Carlile deserved the approbation of all the friends of humanity for attempting to remove this prejudice by leaving his remains for anatomical purposes.（卡莱尔先生理应得到所有人类之友的赞扬，因为他试图通过将他的遗体留给解剖目的来消除这种偏见。）
—Philosophy
