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。
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absentee director
agency shop agreement
anti-sensitization
arterial roads
as merry as a grig
astrometric reflector
automatic rich position
Bahrainis
bensenville
black-backed antshrike
borrage
bourjaily
boy-soldiers
capacity utilization variance
circle-strafing
Codex Gregorianus
connectivum
control of electromagnetic radiation
dilly-dally
disentangle from
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downlooked
dry combustion method
drylot feeding
endocrine exophthalmos
Etesian
family of clouds
fascifera
fathom (fa)
fatty acid sulphonate
feoffments
first order diffracted beam
flower boxes
focus of attention
founders' share
Friedman-Lapham test
fur trader
furcifera
fyord
galacturonide
Haddon Downs
hard-to-sell
head-trip
Hindu law
hubschman
ideophobia
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in sackcloth and ashes
in that spirit
index of crystal face
ingot cracking
insafe
inshrines
kickboxes
lithographed can
magnifying glass
masculists
meteorological range
micronometer
mineral drug
moon phase yoke tube
multiway terminal block
nodal cell (of heart)
nuchols
olivine-hypersthene chondrite
operative procedure
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perniss
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pnenmatic caulking tool
poolwater
potassium dithiocarbonate
power spring
prevailent
pseud-aconitine
R. J.
rauwolscane
recovered steam
russula cf. metachroa
salinity indicator system
Santemicin
Shouman
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tater
to the east of
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trading coach
trisnitrates
tube of magnetic force
uncrunch
underwater construction
verdure tapestry
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Wide B.
woodheads
word-oriented scientific instruction
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