mid-14c., "stated sum of money or other valuable consideration paid by one ruler or country to another in acknowledgment of submission or as the price of peace or protection," from Anglo-French tribute, Old French tribut and directly from Latin tributum "tribute, a stated payment, a thing contributed or paid," noun use of neuter of tributus, past participle of tribuere "to pay, assign, grant," also "allot among the tribes or to a tribe," from tribus (see tribe). Sense of "offering, gift, token" is first recorded 1580s.
实用例句
1. The song is a tribute to Roy Orbison.
那首歌是对罗伊·奥比森的致敬。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The award was a fitting tribute to her years of devoted work.
这个奖项是对她多年全心全意工作的恰如其分的褒奖。
来自《权威词典》
3. At her funeral her oldest friend paid tribute to her life and work.
