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单词 glee
释义
gleeglee /ɡliː/ noun Word Origin
WORD ORIGINglee
Origin:
Old English gleo ‘entertainment, music’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • I rushed back to Terry, all glee.
  • The class howled in glee as she spun and screamed and beat at her burning dress.
  • The doctor was rubbing her hands, probably to warm them, but it looked like a gesture of glee and greed.
  • Then they went at it with redoubled glee.
  • There was a general tone of ill-concealed glee in the reporting of this most spectacular flop in the corporation's history.
  • When you stop and he gets out, young women squeal with glee.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 Manufacturers are rubbing their hands with glee as they prepare to cash in.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
 He had the audience hooting with laughter.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· He also sang with gusto in the school glee club, directed by Mildred Cobbledick, one of those favorites.· Then ninety one day with the glee club and remedial arithmetic.
VERB
· Thousands of people will be rubbing their hands with glee.· I can see the disinfectant manufactures rubbing their hands with glee, confident of selling still stronger-smelling concoctions.· Players' agents and satellite salesmen will be rubbing their hands with glee.· And ace marksman Aldo is rubbing his hands in glee at the prospect.· No doubt the outdoor equipment industry would rub its hands in glee at the thought of such a lucrative threat to its customers.
[uncountable] a feeling of satisfaction and excitement, often because something bad has happened to someone else SYN  delight:  Manufacturers are rubbing their hands with glee as they prepare to cash in.
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