Elate
[ɪ'leɪt]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; 'Music can uplift your spirits'.
手打:玛里琳--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Lifted up; raised; elevated.
(a.) Having the spirits raised by success, or by hope; flushed or exalted with confidence; elated; exultant.
(v. t.) To raise; to exalt.
(v. t.) To exalt the spirit of; to fill with confidence or exultation; to elevate or flush with success; to puff up; to make proud.
校對:拉里
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Flushed (with success), elated, excited, exhilarated, puffed up, in high spirits.
v. a. Cheer, exhilarate, elevate, animate, excite, flush, puff up, make proud.
埃斯蒂斯整理
解釋/意思:
adj. lifted up: puffed up with success: exalted.—v.t. to raise or exalt: to elevate: to make proud.—adv. Elat′edly.—ns. Elat′edness; El′ater an elastic filament in certain liverworts and scale-mosses: a skip-jack beetle; Elatē′rium a substance contained in the juice of the fruit of the squirting cucumber yielding the purgative Elat′erin; Elā′tion pride resulting from success.
手打:玛里琳
例句/造句/用法:
- First, I smiled to myself and felt elate; but this fierce pleasure subsided in me as fast as did the accelerated throb of my pulses. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- In the gallery he was as elate as a king. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- When elate on a subject, he could not avoid talking about it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Don't let your sober face elate you, however; you don't know what it may come to. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- She knows it, and is elate with the consciousness--glad that her money, example, and influence have really, substantially, benefited those around her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- And now my heart is elate because I find you perfect--almost; kind, clever, nice. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- In short, he seemed elate as any midden-cock on pattens. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I neither was crushed nor elated by her lands and gold; I thought not of them, cared not for them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He acted very elated now. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- You elated my pride beyond all the bounds of humility; you blessed me with more than human happiness, but to destroy my peace for ever! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- But you mustn't fancy,' cried the gentleman, quite elated by coming so happily to his point. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Man walked forth, elated with the scene; and all was brightness and splendour. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The sick man smiled also, elated. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I knew you would be,' cried Fagin, elated by the success of his proposal. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
杜安整理