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单词 ecstasy
释义
ecstasy
(ekstəsi )
Word forms: ecstasies
1. variable noun
Ecstasy is a feeling of very great happiness.
...a state of almost religious ecstasy.
...the agony and ecstasy of holiday romance.
Synonyms: rapture, delight, joy, enthusiasm  
2. uncountable noun
Ecstasy is an illegal drug which makes people feel happy and energetic.
3. in/into ecstasy phrase
If you are in ecstasy about something, you are very excited about it. If you go into ecstasies, you become very excited.
My father was in ecstasy when I won my scholarship.
She went into ecstasies over actors.
Quotations:
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in lifeWalter PaterStudies in the History of the Renaissance
Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy,
And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men
Emily Dickinson
To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be soGeorge SantayanaThe Life of Reason: Reason in Art
Collocations:
religious ecstasy
She remains an equivocal role model: religious ecstasy is tricky in a secular age.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
There is something incredibly seductive about religious ecstasy, giving yourself over to that divine feeling.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Translations:
Chinese: 狂喜
Japanese: エクスタシー
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