| 单词 | wonder |
| 释义 | won·der I. 1. < fingers and toes are apparent wonders to the little baby — C.S.Kilby > as a. < it's a wonder he wasn't killed > < no wonder he left after being insulted so > < the wonder is that he was nominated at all — J.A.Huston > < small wonder that all this extraordinary activity … would have exhausted his vitality — H.W.Wiley > b. < performed among you … with signs and wonders and mighty works — 2 Cor 12:12 (Revised Standard Version) > c. < a new hairdo that did wonders for her looks > < free individuals working together … can accomplish wonders — J.C.Penney > d. < a secretary who is a wonder of efficiency > < the pyramids and other wonders of the ancient world > 2. < the beauty and wonder of some of these lovely melodies — Warwick Braithwaite > < the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love — Isaac Watts > 3. a. < stood struck with wide-eyed wonder before the colossal statue > < two impulses in man: one is to accept and take for granted; the other is to look with inquiry and wonder — J.E.Park > < looked at each other in silent wonder — G.D.Brown > b. < your wonder as to what will become of your shares when the banks are nationalized — G.B.Shaw > 4. obsolete 5. Synonyms: < the wonders of Creation — L.P.Smith > < she is a wonder at her job — R.E.Roberts > < a wonder how many wild animals survive > marvel usually designates what excites surprise or astonishment by its extraordinariness, strangeness, or curiousness < the endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society — J.A.Froude > < their hypocrisy is a perpetual marvel to me — W.M.Thackeray > < the marvel of the play is the bewildering rapid chaotic action — T.S.Eliot > < a marvel on the flying trapeze > prodigy designates what makes one marvel because of its oddness or unusualness, especially in degree of skill, endurance, size, or accomplishment < a prodigy of wastefulness, corruption, ignorance, and indolence — T.B.Macaulay > < performed prodigies in transporting to France a gigantic army — G.W.Johnson > < women performing prodigies of endurance, bravery, and hope — Newsweek > < the Shoshones feared … this prodigy, the first white man they had ever seen — A.J.Toynbee > < a land of prodigies: mountains, precipices, cataracts, dead craters, snowy ascents, vertiginous cliffs — American Guide Series: California > miracle applies to something very unusual, especially so contrary to normal expectations that it seems to surpass human comprehension and often approaches the supernatural < their conversations are miracles of studied, stilted eloquence — B.R.Redman > < the ears of an owl are a very miracle of sensitiveness — C.G.D.Roberts > < studied constantly long hours that were a miracle of concentration — Adria Langley > < the miracle which we call genius — J.L.Lowes > phenomenon, implying something exceptional or extraordinary, sometimes, in informal application to persons, suggests the eccentric or odd < it did snow considerably in Vermont that July, a natural phenomenon that gave Thompson a tremendous reputation — American Guide Series: Vermont > < the captain — a phenomenon during prohibition because he was honest — J.F.Dinneen > < an American phenomenon, a self-taught mechanical genius — Don Wharton > < your nephew Caligula is a phenomenon. He's treacherous, cowardly, lustful, vain, deceitful, and he'll play some very dirty tricks on you before he's done — Robert Graves > < in a group of extroverts the introvert will be considered something of a phenomenon > • - for a wonder - to a wonder II. 1. < a family of chemicals … of such exciting potency that the popular name for them is “wonder hormones” — D.C.Cooley > < wonder fibers and miracle finishes > 2. < a wonder city > < a wonder book > < the Elizabethan wonder age of adventure — Spectator > 3. < wore a wonder bag around his neck > III. archaic < delicate wonder white crystals — Westminster Gazette > IV. intransitive verb 1. a. < wondered at the delicacy of form and color — W.B.Yeats > < though no … rapturous insight troubled her childlike soul, yet she could wonder and gaze — A.J.Munby > b. < couldn't help wondering at the size of the servings > < wondered to see them all standing there waiting > < shouldn't wonder if he came after all > < I wonder … that he keeps that reminder of his sufferings by him — Charles Dickens > 2. < wondered as to the feasibility of the plan > < said he had found it but you couldn't help wondering > < looks up in the dictionary words he wonders about > transitive verb 1. < wondered why they came > < wonder if it will rain > < on whom, one wonders, do these expensive weeklies live — Aldous Huxley > : ask or puzzle in one's mind about < wondered what he should do > 2. archaic < I felt all, loved all, wondered all — Charles Lamb > 3. dialect 4. < it is little to be wondered that her students idolized her > |
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