of very high quality or great beauty 崇高的；壮丽的；宏伟的；令人赞叹的 sublime beauty 令人赞叹的美 a sublime combination of flavours 搭配巧妙的几种味道 The location of the hotel is sublime. 这家旅馆的位置非常好。
- (formal, often disapproving)
(of a person’s behaviour or attitudes 人的行为或态度 extreme, especially in a way that shows they are not aware of what they are doing or are not concerned about what happens because of it 极端的；极端而盲目的；一味的 the sublime confidence of youth 年轻人目空一切的自信 He battled on, in the sublime conviction that he was in the right. 他继续战斗，坚信自己是正确的。
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘dignified, aloof’): from Latin sublimis, from sub- ‘up to’ + a second element perhaps related to limen ‘threshold’, limus ‘oblique’.