单词
astonishment
读音
əˈstɑːnɪʃmənt
美式
英式
词根
"Astonishment" 的词根是 "astonish", 其来自于中古英语词汇 "astonien," 间接源于拉丁语的 "tonare," 意为"雷鸣"。意思是这个词最初形容的是像雷声那样惊人的事物。
释义
n. 惊讶；令人惊讶的事物
例句
To her astonishment, he smiled.
使她惊讶的是，他笑了。
They gasped in astonishment at the news.
他们听到这消息惊讶得倒抽了一口气。
I spotted a shooting star which, to my astonishment, was bright green in colour.
我看见了一颗划过长空的流星，让我惊讶的是，它是鲜绿色的。
To her astonishment, he smiled.
使她惊讶的是，他笑了。
They gasped in astonishment at the news.
他们听到这消息惊讶得倒抽了一口气。
I spotted a shooting star which, to my astonishment, was bright green in colour.
我看见了一颗划过长空的流星，让我惊讶的是，它是鲜绿色的。
强化记忆
你可以将 'astonishment' 关联到 'stone' ，想象一块石头突然掉下，你感到极度的震惊，可以帮助你记住这个词。"Astonishment" 这个词从 16 世纪以来一直被人们广泛使用，它蕴含着表达感情、观感的力量。这个词源自于古法语和拉丁语，常用来形容对不寻常事件的反应。
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Take a direct north-south bearing,you find to your astonishmentthat it bisects the intiwatana stone,
And yet tragically, when you now go to those northern communities,you find to your astonishmentthat whereas the sea ice used to come in in September
I've been teaching visual intelligence for over 15 years,and to my great amazement and astonishment --to my never-ending astonishment and amazement,
and to my great amazement and astonishment --to my never-ending astonishment and amazement,I have seen that looking at art with a critical eye
For me, when people, our users, get back to work on their places,that look of compassion changed to astonishment.The same astonishment which I had when I saw Luke Skywalker prosthesis.
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