frolic

英語

其他形式

• frolick

詞源

源自荷蘭語 vrolijk (「歡喜的」)，源自中古荷蘭語 vrolijc，源自古荷蘭語 frōlīk，源自原始日耳曼語 *frawalīkaz。對比德語 fröhlich (「開心的，快樂的」)。

前一個元素，最終源自原始日耳曼語 *frawaz並與中古英語 frow (「匆忙的」)同源；之後的元素，最終源自*-līkaz並與-ly、-like同源。

發音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈfɹɒlɪk/
• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈfɹɑlɪk/

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• 韻部：-ɒlɪk
• 斷字：frol‧ic

形容詞

frolic (比較級 more frolic，最高級 most frolic)

1. (現罕用) 開心的，歡快的，歡騰的，鬧騰的 （自16世紀30年代）
   • 1645, John Milton, 「L』Allegro」 in Poems, London: Humphrey Moseley, p. 31,^[1]

     The frolick wind that breathes the Spring,

     Zephyr with Aurora playing,

     As he met her once a Maying

     There on Beds of Violets blew,

   • 1682, Edmund Waller, 「Of Love」 in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons, London: H. Herringman, 5th edition, 1686, p. 73,^[2]

     For women, born to be controul』d,

     Stoop to the forward and the bold,

     Affect the haughty and the proud,

     The gay, the frollick, and the loud.

   • 1766, Joseph Addison, The Spectator - Volume 5 - Page 304:

     You meet him at the tables and conversations of the wise, the impertinent, the grave, the frolic, and the witty; [...]

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   • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:

     Beale, under this frolic menace, took nothing back at all; he was indeed apparently on the point of repeating his extravagence, but Miss Overmore instructed her little charge that she was not to listen to his bad jokes [...].

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2. (棄用，罕用) 慷慨的，大方的

動詞

frolic (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 frolics，現在分詞 frolicking，一般過去時及過去分詞 frolicked)

1. (不及物) 歡躍，歡鬧，嬉戲 （自16世紀80年代）

   We saw the lambs frolicking in the meadow.

   我們看到羔羊在草地上嬉戲。

2. (及物，古舊) 使...歡快

變位

frolic的變位

不定式	(to) frolic
	現在時	過去式
第一人稱單數	frolic	froliced
第二人稱單數	frolic, frolicest1	froliced, frolicedst1
第三人稱單數	frolics, froliceth1	froliced
複數	frolic
虛擬語氣	frolic
祈使語氣	frolic	—
分詞	frolicing	froliced

¹古舊或棄用。

衍生詞彙

• rollick

名詞

frolic (複數 frolics)

1. 快樂，愉悅 （自17世紀10年代）
   • 1832-1888, Louisa May Alcott

     the annual jubilee […] filled the souls of old and young with visions of splendour, frolic and fun.

   • 2012 (original 1860), Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun - Page 276:

     By the old-fashioned magnificence of this procession, it might worthily have included his Holiness in person, with a suite of attendant Cardinals, if those sacred dignitaries would kindly have lent their aid to heighten the frolic of the Carnival.

2. 歡鬧的舉動
   • 1680, James Dillon, 3rd Earl of Roscommon, Art of Poetry

     He would be at his frolic once again.

3. (棄用，主要用於美國) 聚會
   • 1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:

     He came clattering up to the school door with an invitation to Ichabod to attend a merry-making or 「quilting frolic,」 to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel’s

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參見

• cavort

相關詞彙

• frolicsome

參考資料

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), 「frolic」, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd版, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8