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发音：[ɪˈstim]
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例句：
- To esteem means to set a high value on something.
- Lionel Messi is esteemed as the King of Football.
- If you say you hold someone in high esteem, then it means you give him or her a high value.
- Although the works of the Impressionist painters are esteemed today, they met with scorn when they were introduced.
- The album’s sonic backdrop was crafted almost exclusively by West and Pharrell Williams, two of the most esteemed producers in music, who are able to elicit the best from Pusha T in different ways.
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解释：
- Esteem 这个单词可以做动词使用，其表示“regard something highly, or think much of something”这一含义，即“尊重/敬重/认为…很重要”，与admire/value/respect/prize等单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：Being a doctor in China is esteemed as a noble career.（在中国，当医生被奉为崇高的职业。）/Country music fans all around the world esteem Bob Dylan for his contributions in music industry. （全世界的乡村音乐迷都尊敬鲍勃·迪伦在音乐界的贡献。）/People in the east live in a culture that esteems skinny celebrities.（东方人生活在一种尊重瘦名人的文化中。）
- 除了做动词之外，esteem这个单词很多时候会用作名词，其表示“respect and admiration” 即”尊敬/崇拜/佩服”，与respect/admiration等单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：The doctor has won wide esteem for her work with cancer patients.（这位医生因与癌症患者的合作而赢得了广泛的尊重。）/Cristiano Ronaldo is an athlete who is held in great esteem by his peers.（克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多是一位受到同龄人高度尊重的运动员。）/Because Geoffrey Everest Hinton came up with an algorithm called Backpropagation to solve differentiation problems in neural networks he is held in high esteem in Artificial Intelligence Academia.（因为Geoffrey Everest Hinton提出了一种名为反向传播的算法来解决神经网络中的分化问题，他在人工智能学术界享有很高的声誉。）
- 最后，esteem这个单词也经常使用表达为“self-esteem”，其表示“If you have high self-esteem, that means you have a feeling of pride in yourself.” 即“自尊/自重。”
- 具体使用场景如下：If we look through the lens of self-esteem, it’s like”something is wrong with you. You just need to think better about yourself. Like you need to be more positive.” （如果我们从自尊的角度来看，就像“你有什么问题。你只需要更好地考虑自己。就像你需要更加积极。）/Music can help to improve children’s self-esteem in that they can participate and possibly excel in the musical endeavor.（音乐可以帮助提高孩子的自尊心，因为他们可以参与并可能在音乐事业中表现出色。）
