时间:2019-02-02 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  Giddy这个词并不是天天见,但有时它能恰如其分地表达出语意,是别的词很难代替的。比如新闻记者可能会在稿子中用giddy来形容彩票中奖者欣喜若狂,兴奋的头晕眼花。


  Giddy 最早以gydig的形式出现在古英语中,表示“精神错乱的,疯狂的,着魔的(insane或possessed 1)”。Giddy的词根与god有关,据说最早源于古德语,表示possessed by a god。


  16世纪,giddy具有了更直接的含义:(头部)眩晕,目眩。今天去游乐园的人们还会用giddy来形容乘坐过山车的感觉。与此同时,giddy的比喻义越来越常见,即“因狂喜或激动而头晕目眩”。此外,giddy还逐渐有了“欠考虑的,糊涂的,无聊的”的含义。


  顺便提一句,enthusiasm(热情)这个词的本意也是“inspired or possessed by a god”。







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possessed
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adj.疯狂的;拥有的,占有的


参考例句:





He flew out of the room like a man possessed.他像着了魔似地猛然冲出房门。
He behaved like someone possessed.他行为举止像是魔怔了。













adj.疯狂的;拥有的,占有的
  • He flew out of the room like a man possessed.他像着了魔似地猛然冲出房门。
  • He behaved like someone possessed.他行为举止像是魔怔了。
学英语单词
a bud of promise
ableeze
accessory respiratory
address an objection to
affidavit of performance
afterbrain
air evaporator
aminophenoxy
amplitude-modulated signal
andrews' fourier-type plot
Anergane
associative
block letter
brozen
brutalisations
calculated curve
carmen sylva
cast iron front
champana
children relation
coloured sheet glass
combine nuclear and gas turbine
continuous beam modulation
Creed teletype system
cube mixer
cyberwizard
deformation free energy
device for automatic power
dynamics of jets
dynamo bracket
e-zine
electron-optical system
Eskimoes
excision filter
exhaustion range
Faddeyevskiy, Ostrov
foreclosure decree
formater
Fusobacteriales
gas zone
given chase
go for the gold
homophobes
hypogonad
iguacus
International Rapid Latitude Service
It happens that
kachinics
kazatsky, kazatski
learwite
live-for-today
log periodic
Lubang Is.
magnetic ink scanner
nanocomponent
nanosecond time-resolved spectrosecopy
Napoleonism
National Aeronautical Laboratory
no-balleds
nonherbivores
nosetiology
off-shore dock
oncometer
orders out
orthochromatic erythrocyte
panchax
petitely
physics of atomic collision
plastic bending
pneumatic receptor
polyform distillate
pondus Judaeus
possible maximum load
present serviceability
quarteryearly
queebs
rapala caerulea liliacea
reannounce
red-toppeds
Rhododendron hancockii
ride the bench
romped
safety eyewear
Scutellaria lutescens
see right
snaffle
stet
subfranchise
superromantic
tectonic transport
teleprinter control unit
tellurium
the Iran-Contra Affair
timber selling
total viable count
towel-bracket
trust indentures act
turbulent heat exchange
uncontrollable bird
unwrittenness
wattle and daubs
zone of sharp focus