单词 | trance |
释义 | trance I. intransitive verb obsolete transitive verb 1. < her heart was clutched by a grip of ice, and she went as one tranced — C.G.D.Roberts > < a dead hot silence tranced sea, land, and sky — R.H.Horne > 2. < a romance … held me rapt through may a tranced hour — R.M.Bell > < ever the fiery Pentecost … trances the heart through chanting hours and through the priest the mind inspires — R.W.Emerson > II. 1. < in a calm trance, like a dead person, she crossed the street — Mary McCarthy > < lay stone-still in a trance of terror and mournfulness — George Meredith > < the neigh of some horse … loud and sudden, that had burst the shell of my trance, causing thought to start to life again — Owen Wister > 2. < fell into … a light kind of trance that, he explains, is the first stage of hypnosis — Vance Packard > < in trance they divine auspicious times for various tasks — African Abstracts > 3. < went into a trance closely resembling religious rapture — R.G.Hubler > < would work himself into a condition of ecstasy which resembled a trance … would fall down, and foam would break out on his lips — Maurice Samuel > III. dialect Britain IV. chiefly Scotland |
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