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”。







点击收听单词发音收听单词发音  






1
possessed
xuyyQ
  
 


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
.ncf
abapical pole
abnormal overvoltage
acadie
Acrosticheae
admiralty law
adorn oneself with borrowed plumes
aethylis bromidum
AFU
Agoy
air apportionment
all-digital
anodontia stearnsiana
association paralysis
automations
bedstone
biasucci
binary alloys
blow strong
build quality
bumelia lycioidess
carrier-actuated relay
casein finish
CELR
chlorohydrin synthesis
Cloverport
computerology
contrastive analysis
cut it close
cyclopropylrhodamine
data switching center
dawros hd.
differential excited field winding
discrete image model
dive off
double-current transmission
easterly trough
encapsulation technology
Eucommiaceae
ezequiel
Falkenfels
fine waste material
fuel clump
gouched
Gowers' column
GVPN
HATG
helcogramma striata
hydrogenion concentration
improvement of commodity quality
in a towering passion
in-tune
latex carrier
lycopodium selago l.
main steam system
mall ninjas
mispaint
Mohammedanizes
multiple tariff meter
Myrsine elliptica
natural gradation
non metallic resistor furnace
nutritive equilibrium
octocalcium phosphate
onwards
order level system
PAC
per-pixel lighting
piled wharf
plastic strain concentration
plumas
pretzel party
pseudo-Christ
READU
rectilinear propagation of light
relaxation-type spectrum of dielectrics
resynching
sand-blasting apparatus
secondary lymphoid organ
semiconnate
semistable limit cycle
sheath of Key and Retzius
shoot the sitting pheasant
side wind
slip ... way
solvation number
Tafassâsset, Ténéré du
tire cutter
top grade variety
transmodify
two-base range finder
vacuum arc degassing (vad)
vowelless
wash-room
web taper
wide-area telephone service
wideband tape recorder
width of separation area on acopy
Wolmirstedt
wood decay fungus
Yela I.
yolk granules stage