Awe
[ɔː] or [ɔ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration; 'he stared over the edge with a feeling of awe'.
(verb.) inspire awe in; 'The famous professor awed the undergraduates'.
校對:谢尔比--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Dread; great fear mingled with respect.
(n.) The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence.
(v. t.) To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread.
布莱尔整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Reverence, veneration, reverential fear.[2]. Dread, fearfulness.
v. a. Overawe, intimidate, frighten, affright, daunt, cow, inspire with awe.
錄入:朱迪思
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Fear, dread, veneration, reverence
ANT:Fearlessness, contempt, disrespect, familiarity, irreverence
手打:旺达
解釋/意思:
n. reverential fear or wonder: dread: (arch.) power to inspire awe.—v.t. to strike with or influence by fear.—adj. Awe′less without fear.—n. Awe′lessness.—adjs. Awe′some Aw′some (Scot.) full of awe: inspiring awe: weird dreadful.—v.t. Awe′-strike to strike with awe.—adjs. Awe′-struck struck or affected with awe; Aw′ful full of awe: dreadful: inspiring respect: expressive of awe: (slang) ugly: and as a mere intensive of anything.—adv. Aw′fully (also in slang merely = very).—n. Aw′fulness.
錄入:特丽萨
例句/造句/用法:
- Whether from awe or pity, nobody raised the price on him. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- They were not more in awe of her than she of them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It moved every feeling of wonder and awe, that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- I have reason to remember this, and think of it with awe; for before I looked upon those two again, a stormy sea had risen to their feet. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- One eye was buried in the soft loam; the other, rolling sidewise, was fixed in awe upon the strange gyrations of Professor Porter. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- He fell back a few steps, and looked at me with an expression of compassionate curiosity, tempered by superstitious awe. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- His countenance was therefore fully displayed, and its expression was calculated to impress a degree of awe, if not of fear, upon strangers. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court; which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- It was a rare one with his tutor; but when it came he had an awe of it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- George was awe-struck at the force, the vehemence, the power, with which these broken sentences were uttered. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Nothing more they found, and it was a thoroughly awed and frightened group of savages which huddled around their king a few moments later. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- She was disheartened by Lady Bertram's silence, awed by Sir Thomas's grave looks, and quite overcome by Mrs. Norris's admonitions. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- I asked in a whisper, half awed by the deep pervading hush. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- This method is neither so conclusive as the devotees say, nor so bad as the people who are awed by it would like to believe. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I paused, even awed by the agitation he evinced; Yes, he said at length, rising and biting his lip, as he strove to curb his passion; Such am I! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Even our soldiers were awed to silence; the music paused; the clang of arms was hushed. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- But they were awed as I had been, at the change of his appearance. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She knew more than he did, and yet she listened with that hopeless expression of awed apprehension. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Nay, with some persons those awes and terrors of youth last for ever and ever. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Not a bad purchase for Rosedale, though: attracts attention, and awes the Western sight-seer. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
手打:雷切尔