维基词典

flabbergast

英语 编辑

词源 编辑

不详，可能是一方言词（萨福克郡），源自flabby或flap (“打击”) + aghast。[1][2]该词可能与苏格兰英語 flabrigast (“夸口”)或flabrigastit (“筋疲力竭”)有关。[1][3]

名词派生自动词。[4]

发音 编辑

  • (標準英音) 國際音標(幫助)：/ˈflæbə(ˌ)ɡɑːst/
  • (通用美式) 英語發音：flăb′ər-găst'、國際音標(幫助)：/ˈflæbɚˌɡæst/
  • （通用美式）音频（文檔）
  • （澳洲）音频（文檔）
  • 斷字：flab‧ber‧gast

动词 编辑

flabbergast (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 flabbergasts，現在分詞 flabbergasting，過去式 flabbergasted，過去分詞 flabbergasted 或 flabbergast)

  1. (及物) 使...震惊，使...大吃一惊，使...目瞪口呆 （自18世纪晚期起）
    近義詞： flabbergaster；亦參見Thesaurus:surprise
    He was flabbergasted to find that his work had been done for him before he began.
    他发现他的活在他开始做之前就已经做好了的时候目瞪口呆。
    Her stupidity flabbergasts me, and I have to force myself to keep a straight face while she explains her beliefs.
    她的愚蠢真是惊到我了，她在解释她那些信念的时候我得憋着我的表情。
    I love to flabbergast the little-minded by shattering their preconceptions about my nationality and gender.
    我特别喜欢粉碎掉那些对我的民族和性别的偏见，让那些心胸狭隘的人大吃一惊。
    The oddity of the situation was so flabbergasting I couldn’t react in time for anyone to see it.
    反常的势态令我大吃一惊，让我没有时间作出反应让别人看到。
    • 1772, “Observator” [pseudonym], “On New Words; from the Same [Town and Country Magazine]”, 出自 Edmund Burke 編, The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature, 卷 XV, London: Printed for J[ames] Dodsley, […], 出版於 1773, →OCLC，頁號 191，列號 1:
      Now we are flabbergaſted and bored from morning to night—in the ſenate, at Cox's muſeum, at Ranelagh, and even at church.
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    • 1834, Jack Downing [pseudonym; Seba Smith], 章號 XXV, 出自 The Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by T. K. Greenbank, →OCLC，頁號 183:
      They flabagast good manners and good morals, and only show that one of the parties is vex'd and disappinted.[sic]
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      The author was known to write in American vernacular for purposes of humor. As a result, the spelling in this work is idiosyncratic.
    • 1861 August, [David Masson], “Mr. Buckle’s Doctrine as to the Scotch and Their History”, 出自 David Masson 編, Macmillan’s Magazine, 卷 IV, 期 22, Cambridge, London: Macmillan and Co. […], →OCLC, part II (The Weasel-wars of Scotland and the Scottish Reformation)，頁號 316，列號 1:
      Now, there are assertions, not dissimilar in their power of benumbing and flabbergasting one, but yet within the bounds of sane and perfectly orderly plausibility, for which our language wants a name. Paradox is too hackneyed a term. They ought to be called Buckleisms. When a man makes an assertion clean in the teeth of all previous belief, and makes it coolly, fluently, without proof, and yet as if contradiction were impossible—that is a Buckleism.
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    • 1887 1月 29, “The ‘Emergency-Man’”, 出自 Punch, or The London Charivari, 卷 XCII, London: Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, →OCLC，頁號 54，列號 1:
      Skates that are not quite a fit, my dear Smith, / May flabberghast even a chap of your pith.
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    • 1896 8月 22, [F. Anstey] [pseudonym; Thomas Anstey Guthrie], “Jottings and Tittlings. (By Baboo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A.) No. XXI. Mr. Jabberjee Halloos before He is Quite Out of the Woods”, 出自 Punch, or The London Charivari, 卷 CXI, London: Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, →OCLC，頁號s 88–89，列號 2:
      At this I was rendered completely flabaghast—for, although the allegation was undeniably correct, I had confidently hoped that my friend Ram was unaware of the fact, or would at least have the ordinary mother-wit to refrain from blurting it out!
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    • Template:RQ:Dostoevsky Insulted and Injured
    • 1956, John T[homas] Flynn, “The Rabbits Go Back in the Hat”, 出自 The Roosevelt Myth, revised版, New York, N.Y.: Devin-Adair Publishing Company, →OCLC; reprinted Auburn, Ala.: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2008, →OCLC, book 1 (Trial—and Error)，頁號s 50–51:
      He [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] loved to flabbergast his associates by announcing some startling new policy without consulting any of them.
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    • 2008, Harry Turtledove, The United States of Atlantis: A Novel of Alternate History, New York, N.Y.: Roc/New American Library, →ISBN，頁號 240:
      The idea may surprise you, but I intend that it shall flabbergast the poor foolish Englishmen mured up behind those pine and redwood logs. Flabbergast 'em, I say!
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    • 2012, Tara M. Tamasi, Ms. O’Brien’s Class, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN，頁號 226:
      Then the most unbelievable thing happened, totally flabbergasting every student in the class.
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衍生词汇 编辑

名词 编辑

flabbergast (可數 和 不可數，複數 flabbergasts)

  1. (可數) 呆子
    近義詞： dork、dweeb、geek；亦參見Thesaurus:dork
  2. (不可數) 震惊，惊讶，吃惊，惊愕
    近義詞： astonishment、astoundedness、awe、dumbfoundedness、flabbergaster、flabbergastation、flabbergastment、stupefaction；亦參見Thesaurus:confusion, Thesaurus:surprise
    When I saw my house on fire, the flabbergast overcame me and I just stood and stared, too shocked to comprehend what I was seeing.
    我看到我房子着火的时候，惊讶得呆呆地站在那看着，吃惊得无法理解我看到的景象。
    His flabbergast was so great he couldn’t even come up with a plausible answer.
    他惊讶得没法组织出合理的回答。
    • 1852 October, “Adventures of Tom Honeycomb—No. I”, 出自 Yankee Notions, 卷 2, 期 10, New York, N.Y.: Published by T. W. Strong, […], →OCLC，頁號 297:
      Her foibles were flattery, fine feeling, and flabergast; and if not old enough to be his mother, sufficiently so to be a young aunt.
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    • 1868 2月 22, Oliver Optic [pseudonym; William Taylor Adams], “Freaks of Fortune; or, Half Round the World”, 出自 Oliver Optic 編, Oliver Optic’s Magazine. Our Boys and Girls, 卷 III, 期 60, Boston, Mass.: Published by Lee and Shepard, […], →OCLC, chapter XVI (Pistols for Two)，頁號 117，列號 2:
      Then quit your flabbergast, and talk in plain English.
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    • 1998, James Carlos Blake, Red Grass River: A Legend, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN; 1st Perennial版, New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial, 2000, →ISBN，頁號 52:
      Bob's big-eyed flabbergast struck him as comic and he laughed and said, "Lying sack, hey?"
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参考资料 编辑

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jonathon Green, editor (2005) Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang, 2nd版, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 978-0-304-36636-1, 页511。
  2. ↑ William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1897) The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, New York, N.Y.: The Century Company, OCLC 2694351, 页2245, suggesting the second element of the word as derived from gast (“astonish”)。
  3. ↑ “flabbergast, v.”, OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1896; “flabbergast”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
  4. ↑ “flabbergast, n.”, OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1896

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