| 释义 |
astonished, ppl. a.|əˈstɒnɪʃt|
Also 6 -ist, 7 -isht.
[f. astonish + -ed.]
†1. Bereft of sensation; stunned, benumbed. Obs.
1576Baker Gesner's Jewell Health 50 a, The water doth lyke recover astonished or benummed partes of the body. 1615Crooke Body of Man 460 Who lay..apoplecticall or astonished. 1658Rowland Mouffet's Theat. Ins. 1106 This cures the nerves relaxed, contracted, astonished.
†2. Stunned or paralysed mentally, bereft of one's wits; stupefied, bewildered. Obs.
1513Douglas æneis viii. iii. 59 Pallas, astonyst of sa hie a name. 1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 5 Musidorus..had his wits astonished with sorrow. 1670Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 502 Blind, astonished, and struck with superstition as with a planet; in one word, Monks.
3. Filled with consternation; dismayed. arch.
1653Crashaw Sacr. Poems 147 Th' astonish'd nymphs their flood's strange fate deplore. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. (R.) With rage inflam'd astonish'd with surprize. 1790Burns Tam O'Shanter, But Maggie stood right sair astonish'd.
4. Amazed, full of surprised wonder.
1718Pope Iliad vii. 105 This fierce defiance Greece astonish'd heard. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. III. 228 Beaten to death with sticks, before the eyes of the astonished emperor. 1810Southey Kehama xxiii. ix, The towers of Yamenpur Rise on the astonish'd sight. |