| 单词 | glad |
| 释义 | glad I. 1. archaic 2. a. < if you are happy, I am glad > < glad that they succeeded > < glad at the announcement > < were glad to meet him > b. (1) < both his high-school friends were glad of his company — William Du Bois > (2) < they got what they deserved and I'm glad of it > c. < glad to do anything you say > 3. a. (1) < a glad countenance > < up we climb with glad exhilaration — John Muir †1914 > < the others gave a glad shout — Francis Shean > (2) < a glad occasion > b. < the glad news was flashed through the encampment — F.V.W.Mason > : pleasant, cheering < the same glad assurance of meeting again — W.W.Howells > 4. < a glad spring morning > Synonyms: < always gleeful and jocular, even as afterward his entire saintly life was glad with an invincible gaiety of spirit — H.O.Taylor > In cursory conventional expressions it indicates gratification or lack of reservation or regret < I shall be glad of your company — G.B.Shaw > happy, often interchangeable with glad, may imply a more positive and demonstrative sense of well-being, satisfaction, and enjoyment < like most men with a happy family life, it was no hardship for him to be alone — H.S.Canby > < all the delightful signs of their happy intimacy — Morley Callaghan > cheerful suggests lively, hearty, and optimistic good spirits arising from a naturally sanguine disposition or from some particular cause of happiness < they [suicidal attempts] could not enter the cheerful, sanguine, courageous scheme of life … in part natural to her — Havelock Ellis > < as cheerful as could be expected, for his broken leg was knitting nicely — Jack London > lighthearted suggests a carefree, debonair, easygoing freedom from concern giving rise to lively mirth < the gayest of worried people in Europe … they can be lighthearted in the midst of misery and joke at their own expense — H.J.Forman > < lighthearted optimistic libertarianism — M.R.Cohen > joyful and joyous are very close together in indicating joy, marked happiness, high pleasure, elation; joyous may hint a more lasting or more certain elated happiness, joyful a more demonstrative happiness arising from a particular cause < a bright and happy Christian, a romping optimist, who laughed away sin and doubt, a joyful Puritan — Sinclair Lewis > < thou with the smile on thy face and the joyful eyes and clear — William Morris > < that joyous serenity we think belongs to a better world than this — Sir Winston Churchill > < a joyous, lighthearted, and hilarious mode of life which offered a strong contrast to the more sober lives of New England — C.A. & Mary Beard > II. transitive verb archaic intransitive verb obsolete III. archaic IV. |
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