flabbergast

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英语[编辑]

词源[编辑]

不详，可能是一方言词（萨福克郡），源自flabby或flap (“打击”) + aghast。[1][2]该词可能与苏格兰英语 flabrigast (“夸口”)或flabrigastit (“筋疲力竭”)有关。[1][3]

名词派生自动词。[4]

发音[编辑]

  • (标准英音) IPA(帮助)：/ˈflæbə(ˌ)ɡɑːst/
  • (通用美式) 英语发音：flăb′ər-găst'、IPA(帮助)：/ˈflæbɚˌɡæst/
  • （通用美式）音频（文档）
  • （澳洲）音频（文档）
  • 断字：flab‧ber‧gast

动词[编辑]

flabbergast (第三人称单数简单现在时 flabbergasts, 现在分词 flabbergasting, 过去式 flabbergasted, 过去分词 flabbergasted 或 flabbergast)

  1. (及物) 使...震惊，使...大吃一惊，使...目瞪口呆 （自18世纪晚期起）
    近义词： flabbergaster；亦参见Thesaurus:surprise
    He was flabbergasted to find that his work had been done for him before he began.
    他发现他的活在他开始做之前就已经做好了的时候目瞪口呆。
    Her stupidity flabbergasts me, and I have to force myself to keep a straight face while she explains her beliefs.
    她的愚蠢真是惊到我了，她在解释她那些信念的时候我得憋着我的表情。
    I love to flabbergast the little-minded by shattering their preconceptions about my nationality and gender.
    我特别喜欢粉碎掉那些对我的民族和性别的偏见，让那些心胸狭隘的人大吃一惊。
    The oddity of the situation was so flabbergasting I couldn’t react in time for anyone to see it.
    反常的势态令我大吃一惊，让我没有时间作出反应让别人看到。
    • 1772，“Observator” [pseudonym]，“On New Words; from the Same [Town and Country Magazine]”，出自Edmund Burke编， The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature，卷号XV，London:Printed for J[ames] Dodsley, […]，出版年份1773, OCLC 1779623, 页号191, column 1:
      Now we are flabbergaſted and bored from morning to night—in the ſenate, at Cox's muſeum, at Ranelagh, and even at church.
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    • 1834, Jack Downing [pseudonym; Seba Smith], 章号 XXV, 出自 The Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by T. K. Greenbank, →OCLC，页号 183:
      They flabagast good manners and good morals, and only show that one of the parties is vex'd and disappinted.[sic]
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      The author was known to write in American vernacular for purposes of humor. As a result, the spelling in this work is idiosyncratic.
    • 1861 August，[David Masson]，“Mr. Buckle’s Doctrine as to the Scotch and Their History”，出自David Masson编， Macmillan’s Magazine，卷号IV，期号22，Cambridge; London:Macmillan and Co. […], OCLC 1042245262, part II (The Weasel-wars of Scotland and the Scottish Reformation), 页号316, column 1:
      Now, there are assertions, not dissimilar in their power of benumbing and flabbergasting one, but yet within the bounds of sane and perfectly orderly plausibility, for which our language wants a name. Paradox is too hackneyed a term. They ought to be called Buckleisms. When a man makes an assertion clean in the teeth of all previous belief, and makes it coolly, fluently, without proof, and yet as if contradiction were impossible—that is a Buckleism.
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    • 1887年1月29日，“The ‘Emergency-Man’”，出自 Punch, or The London Charivari，卷号XCII，London:Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, OCLC 732224722, 页号54, column 1:
      Skates that are not quite a fit, my dear Smith, / May flabberghast even a chap of your pith.
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    • 1896年8月22日，[F. Anstey] [pseudonym; Thomas Anstey Guthrie]，“Jottings and Tittlings. (By Baboo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A.) No. XXI. Mr. Jabberjee Halloos before He is Quite Out of the Woods”，出自 Punch, or The London Charivari，卷号CXI，London:Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, OCLC 732224722, 页号88–89, column 2:
      At this I was rendered completely flabaghast—for, although the allegation was undeniably correct, I had confidently hoped that my friend Ram was unaware of the fact, or would at least have the ordinary mother-wit to refrain from blurting it out!
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    • 1956, John T[homas] Flynn, “The Rabbits Go Back in the Hat”, 出自 The Roosevelt Myth, revised版, New York, N.Y.: Devin-Adair Publishing Company, →OCLC; reprinted Auburn, Ala.: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2008, →OCLC, book 1 (Trial—and Error)，页号s 50–51:
      He [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] loved to flabbergast his associates by announcing some startling new policy without consulting any of them.
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    • 2008, Harry Turtledove, The United States of Atlantis: A Novel of Alternate History, New York, N.Y.: Roc/New American Library, →ISBN，页号 240:
      The idea may surprise you, but I intend that it shall flabbergast the poor foolish Englishmen mured up behind those pine and redwood logs. Flabbergast 'em, I say!
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    • 2012, Tara M. Tamasi, Ms. O’Brien’s Class, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN，页号 226:
      Then the most unbelievable thing happened, totally flabbergasting every student in the class.
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其他形式[编辑]

衍生词汇[编辑]

名词[编辑]

flabbergast (可数 和 不可数, 复数 flabbergasts)

  1. (可数) 呆子
    近义词： dork、dweeb、geek；亦参见Thesaurus:dork
  2. (不可数) 震惊，惊讶，吃惊，惊愕
    近义词： astonishment、astoundedness、awe、dumbfoundedness、flabbergaster、flabbergastation、flabbergastment、stupefaction；亦参见Thesaurus:confusion, Thesaurus:surprise
    When I saw my house on fire, the flabbergast overcame me and I just stood and stared, too shocked to comprehend what I was seeing.
    我看到我房子着火的时候，惊讶得呆呆地站在那看着，吃惊得无法理解我看到的景象。
    His flabbergast was so great he couldn’t even come up with a plausible answer.
    他惊讶得没法组织出合理的回答。
    • 1852 October，“Adventures of Tom Honeycomb—No. I”，出自 Yankee Notions，卷号2，期号10，New York, N.Y.:Published by T. W. Strong, […], OCLC 32423418, 页号297:
      Her foibles were flattery, fine feeling, and flabergast; and if not old enough to be his mother, sufficiently so to be a young aunt.
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    • 1868年2月22日，Oliver Optic [pseudonym; William Taylor Adams]，“Freaks of Fortune; or, Half Round the World”，出自Oliver Optic编， Oliver Optic’s Magazine. Our Boys and Girls，卷号III，期号60，Boston, Mass.:Published by Lee and Shepard, […], OCLC 1013420746, chapter XVI (Pistols for Two), 页号117, column 2:
      Then quit your flabbergast, and talk in plain English.
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    • 1998, James Carlos Blake, Red Grass River: A Legend, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN; 1st Perennial版, New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial, 2000, →ISBN，页号 52:
      Bob's big-eyed flabbergast struck him as comic and he laughed and said, "Lying sack, hey?"
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参考资料[编辑]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jonathon Green, editor (2005) Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang, 2nd版, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 978-0-304-36636-1, 页511。
  2. ↑ William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1897) The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, New York, N.Y.: The Century Company, OCLC 2694351, 页2245, suggesting the second element of the word as derived from gast (“astonish”)。
  3. ↑ “flabbergast, v.”, OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1896; “flabbergast”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
  4. ↑ “flabbergast, n.”, OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1896

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