In retrospect it is clear the country was living in a bubble of hubris and unearned kudos.
It would strengthen him as a force in Russian politics, gain him international kudos and lay the Yukos ghost that still haunts the Kremlin.
Instead of the leading man roles, he started gravitating towards co-starring roles and through a series of bad choices (read: crappy films) found himself settling for paychecks instead of kudos.
But the kudos will probably stop right here.
While many, many English words are built on Greek roots, the word kudos is a direct borrowing from Greek.
The story and the direction are the best I've seen so far this year, and it deserves all the kudos it gets.
There is no pariah it seems, with whom Mr Obama is not prepared to risk dialogue-even North Korea, which has long hankered after the kudos of bilateral talks with America.
Unlike Greece, Portugal has gained much kudos in Brussels and Berlin for being a model pupil for the euro zone.
While "people obviously like the kudos of having hundreds of friends" the reality was that their social circle was unlikely to be bigger than anybody else's.
雖然有非常多英文單詞是由希臘詞根構成的，但kudos這個詞卻是被從希臘語中借過來直接使用的。
Even more literally kudos meant “that which is heard of” and you can see the same root in kudos that also exists inacoustic which Francis Bacon plucked from the Greek word akouein meaning “to hear.”
你可以在另一個單詞inacoustic看到和kudos一樣的詞根，單詞inacoustic 是弗蘭西斯·培根(FrancisBacon)從意思為"聽"的希臘語單詞akouein摘來的。在希臘語裏kudos 的引申義為"表揚，讚揚"，而從本義上看它更傾向於“名聲”和“聲望”的意思。
As a phenomenal song in Chinese musical circles, it gained many kudos and is constantly covered by other musicians.
I believed that I would win kudos for my contrarian view when the bubble burst.
現在韋氏辭典把單數形式的kudo[coo-doe]的作為一個*詞條，並在其中列出這個單詞的複數形式。 而kudos[coo-doss聽起來更加希臘化]作為另外一個完全*的詞條被單列出來。
Plus, making a book is creative, fun, and sure to get you kudos and recognition when your gift is opened.
Merriam-Webster now lists kudo [coo-doe] the singular form as the main entry for the word with a plural and a whole second entry for kudos [coo-doss, more Greek sounding] being another word.
Mr Bercow's friends, meanwhile, dismiss the disenfranchisement argument, saying that many constituents like the kudos of having the speaker as their MP.
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