| 单词 | amazement |
| 释义 | amazement (once / 360 pages) n Amazement is what you feel when you're shocked or astonished by something. When you feel amazement, you can't quite believe what you're seeing or hearing. To amaze someone is to shock, surprise, and astonish them. Amazement is the emotion produced by truly unusual and surprising things. A juggler throwing around fire can produce amazement. A child reciting thousands of digits of Pi will create amazement. Parents feel amazement at the birth of their children. This is a strong feeling resulting from incredible events. No one feels amazement about average, boring stuff. WORD FAMILYamazement: amazements+/amaze: amazed, amazement, amazes, amazing/amazed: amazedly/amazing: amazingest, amazingly USAGE EXAMPLESWith an air of amazement he told this story. Wall Street Journal(Dec 22, 2016) And though the contractual negotiations are proving tricky, to some amazement nearly all Helsinki’s transport operators—even taxi-drivers—seem willing to give it a go. Economist(Sep 29, 2016) “After the road trip, I just watched in amazement as the odds climbed and climbed,” Barnes said. Washington Times(Nov 24, 2016) n the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising Syn|Hypo|Hyper astonishment admiration, wonder, wonderment the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising surprisethe astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you stupefactiona feeling of stupefied astonishment awean overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration daze, shock, stuporthe feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally feeling the experiencing of affective and emotional states |
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