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admiration

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借自中古法语 admiration，或直接来自拉丁语 admīrātiō，源自ad- (“向”) + mīrō (“看”) + -ātiō。对比动词admire, 美式方言词miration, mirate。

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admiration (可数 和 不可数，复数 admirations)

  1. 赞赏，佩服，钦佩
    admiration of a war hero
    对战争英雄的钦佩
    They looked at the landscape in admiration.
    他们看着风景，赞叹不已。
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 2, Book 7, Chapter 1, pp. 4-5,[1]
      For in this Instance, Life most exactly resembles the Stage, since it is often the same Person who represents the Villain and the Heroe; and he who engages your Admiration To-day, will probably attract your Contempt To-Morrow.
    • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume 1, Chapter 6,[2]
      A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
      女人的想象力真敏捷；从敬慕一跳就跳到爱情，一眨眼的工夫又从爱情跳到结婚。
    • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, New York: Harcout Brace Jovanovich, 1974, Chapter 3, p. 40,[3]
      Dr. Veraswami had a passionate admiration for the English, which a thousand snubs from Englishmen had not shaken.
    • 1939, John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin, 1951, Chapter 19, p. 257,[4]
      […] in the towns, the storekeepers hated them because they had no money to spend. There is no shorter path to a storekeeper’s contempt, and all his admirations are exactly opposite. The town men, little bankers, hated Okies because there was nothing to gain from them.
  2. 〈旧〉 疑惑，质疑（没有特定情感）
    • 大约1605 William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 4,[5]
      Lear. Your name, fair gentlewoman?
      Goneril. This admiration, sir, is much o’ th’ savour
      Of other your new pranks.
    • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Revelation 17:6,[6]
      And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
      随后，我看见那女人喝醉了圣徒们的血，以及为耶稣做见证之人的血。我看到她就大大惊奇。
    • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 3, lines 270-272,[7]
      […] Admiration seized
      All Heaven, what this might mean, and whither tend,
      Wondering;
  3. 〈旧〉 令人赞叹的事物

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借自拉丁语 admiratio, admirationem。

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admiration f (复数 admirations)

  1. 赞赏，佩服，钦佩
    Plein d’admiration pour son adversaire, chacun lève sa propre visière : "Elsseneur ! ...", "Réginald ! ..." (Les Chants de Maldoror - Chant V) - Full of admiration for his enemy, ...

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admiration (复数 admirations)

  1. 赞赏，佩服，钦佩

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