admiration
英語
[编辑]詞源
[编辑]借自中古法語 admiration,或直接來自拉丁語 admīrātiō,源自ad- (“向”) mīrō (“看”) -ātiō。對比動詞admire, 美式方言詞miration, mirate。
發音
[编辑]名詞
[编辑]admiration (可數 和 不可數,複數 admirations)
- 讚賞,佩服,欽佩
- admiration of a war hero
- 對戰爭英雄的欽佩
- They looked at the landscape in admiration.
- 他們看著風景,讚歎不已。
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 2, Book 7, Chapter 1, pp. 4-5,[1]
- For in this Instance, Life most exactly resembles the Stage, since it is often the same Person who represents the Villain and the Heroe; and he who engages your Admiration To-day, will probably attract your Contempt To-Morrow.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume 1, Chapter 6,[2]
- A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
- 女人的想象力真敏捷;從敬慕一跳就跳到愛情,一眨眼的工夫又從愛情跳到結婚。
- A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
- 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, New York: Harcout Brace Jovanovich, 1974, Chapter 3, p. 40,[3]
- Dr. Veraswami had a passionate admiration for the English, which a thousand snubs from Englishmen had not shaken.
- 1939, John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin, 1951, Chapter 19, p. 257,[4]
- […] in the towns, the storekeepers hated them because they had no money to spend. There is no shorter path to a storekeeper’s contempt, and all his admirations are exactly opposite. The town men, little bankers, hated Okies because there was nothing to gain from them.
- 〈旧〉 疑惑,質疑(沒有特定情感)
- 大約1605 William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 4,[5]
- Lear. Your name, fair gentlewoman?
- Goneril. This admiration, sir, is much o’ th’ savour
- Of other your new pranks.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Revelation 17:6,[6]
- And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
- 隨後,我看見那女人喝醉了聖徒們的血,以及為耶穌做見證之人的血。我看到她就大大驚奇。
- And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 3, lines 270-272,[7]
- […] Admiration seized
- All Heaven, what this might mean, and whither tend,
- Wondering;
- 大約1605 William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 4,[5]
- 〈旧〉 令人讚歎的事物
- 大約1602 William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 1,[8]
- Now, good Lafeu,
- Bring in the admiration; that we with thee
- May spend our wonder too, or take off thine
- By wondering how thou took’st it.
- 大約1602 William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 1,[8]
近義詞
[编辑]派生詞
[编辑]- 參見admire
法語
[编辑]詞源
[编辑]借自拉丁語 admiratio, admirationem。
發音
[编辑]名詞
[编辑]admiration f (複數 admirations)
- 讚賞,佩服,欽佩
- Plein d’admiration pour son adversaire, chacun lève sa propre visière : "Elsseneur ! ...", "Réginald ! ..." (Les Chants de Maldoror - Chant V) - Full of admiration for his enemy, ...
拓展閱讀
[编辑]- 查看“admiration”在le Trésor de la langue française informatisé(《法语数字化宝典》)中的释义。
低地蘇格蘭語
[编辑]名詞
[编辑]admiration (複數 admirations)
參考資料
[编辑]- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online