amaze
英語[编辑]
詞源[编辑]
源自中古英語 *amasen (“使迷惑、困惑”),源自古英語 āmasian (“使迷惑,使驚奇”),源自ā- (完成時前綴) + *masian (“使困惑”),等同於a- + maze。
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動詞[编辑]
amaze (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 amazes,現在分詞 amazing,一般過去時及過去分詞 amazed)
- (及物) 使感到驚奇、驚訝 (自16世紀)
- He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.
- 他得知女孩是機器人的時候,吃了一驚。
- 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?
- 眾人都驚奇,說,這不是大衛的子孫麼。
- 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.
- (不及物) 感到驚奇、驚訝
- 1890, Bayard Taylor, Faust: A Tragedy:
- Eye is blinded, ear amazes.
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- (obsolete) 使神志不清 (13-17世紀)
- (obsolete) 使迷惑、困惑
- (obsolete) 恐慌,驚恐 (16-18世紀)
- 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 […]
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amaze (不可數)
- (現詩歌) 驚奇,驚訝 (自16世紀)
- 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.
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- 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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:
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amaze
- amize的另一種寫法
參考資料[编辑]
- 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