lionize

1. V-T If someone is lionized, they are treated as if they are very important or special by a particular group of people, often when they do not really deserve to be. 吹捧[正式]

By the 1920s, he was lionized by literary New York. 20世紀(jì)20年代前，他被紐約文學(xué)界所吹捧。

The press began to lionize him enthusiastically. 媒體開始狂熱地吹捧他。

In 1936, Max Schmeling had been lionized as boxing's great hope. 1936年，馬克斯?史蘭明被吹捧為拳擊界的很大希望。