amaze

英语

词源

源自中古英语 *amasen (“使迷惑、困惑”)，源自古英语 āmasian (“使迷惑，使惊奇”)，源自ā- (完成时前缀) + *masian (“使困惑”)，等同于a- +‎ maze。

发音

• (英国) 国际音标^(帮助)：/əˈmeɪz/

• 音频 (美国)

  （文档）

• 韵部：-eɪz

动词

amaze (第三人称单数简单现在时 amazes，现在分词 amazing，一般过去时及过去分词 amazed)

1. (及物) 使感到惊奇、惊讶 （自16世纪）

   He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.

   他得知女孩是机器人的时候，吃了一惊。

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 12:23:

     And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?

     众人都惊奇，说，这不是大卫的子孙么。

   • 1759, Oliver Goldsmith, The Present State of Polite Learning

     Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe with her wit, to amusing them with the greatness of her Catholic credulity.

2. (不及物) 感到惊奇、惊讶
   • 1890, Bayard Taylor, Faust: A Tragedy:

     Eye is blinded, ear amazes.

     （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

3. (obsolete) 使神志不清 （13-17世纪）
4. (obsolete) 使迷惑、困惑
   • Template:RQ:Shakespeare Venus and Adonis
5. (obsolete) 恐慌，惊恐 （16-18世纪）
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd版, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     , New York Review Books 2001, p.261:

     [Fear] amazeth many men that are to speak or show themselves in public assemblies, or before some great personages […]

相关词汇

• amazing
• amazement

名词

amaze (不可数)

1. (现诗歌) 惊奇，惊讶 （自16世纪）
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:

     All in amaze he suddenly vp start / With sword in hand, and with the old man went [...].

   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     Presently, however, as we stood in amaze, gazing at the marvellous sight, and wondering whence the rosy radiance flowed, a dread and beautiful thing happened.

     （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 103:

     Shattuck looked at him in amaze.

   • 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1361:

     She took the proffered cheque and stared at it with puzzled amaze, dazed by her own behaviour.

约拉语

名词

amaze

1. amize的另一种写法

参考资料

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, 编, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ISBN 978-1436729291, 页22