ethereal

英语

其他形式

• etherial
• aethereal, aetherial (古旧)
• æthereal, æthereall, ætherial, ætheriall (弃用)

词源

源自拉丁语 aetherius (“与天空、高空有关的”)，源自古希腊语 αἰθέριος (aithérios, “与高空有关的”)。可作ether +‎ -ial分析。

发音

• (标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助): /ɪˈθɪə.ɹɪ.əl/
• (美国) 国际音标^(帮助): /ɪˈθɪɚ.i.əl/

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形容词

ethereal (比较级 more ethereal，最高级 most ethereal)

1. 天上的，天界的

   近义词：aereous、celestial、mystical、otherworldly、transcendental；亦参见Thesaurus:cosmic

   ethereal space ― 天界

   ethereal regions ― 天界

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, 出自 Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; 再版为 Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC，第 1282–1284 行s:

     Since to part, / Go heavenly Gueſt, Ethereal Meſſenger, / Sent from whoſe ſovran goodneſs I adore.

     既然要启程离开，就请上路，天上的客人，太空中的信使，接受派遣，来自我所崇拜的至善的上帝。

   • 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, 第 2 卷，第 25–26 页s:

     The fanciful fables of fairy land are but allegories of the young poet's mind when the sweet spell is upon him. Some slight thing calls up the visionary world, and all the outward and actual is for the time forgotten. It is a fever ethereal and lovely; but, like all other fevers, leaving behind weakness and exhaustion.

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   • 1862, Henry David Thoreau, “Walking”, 出自 The Atlantic Monthly‎^[1], 第 9 卷, 第 56 期:

     I trust that we shall be more imaginative, that our thoughts will be clearer, fresher, and more ethereal, as our sky, […]

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   • 1885, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man 源自Archangel‎^[2]:

     She was very young—at the most nineteen, with a pale somewhat refined face, yellow hair, merry blue eyes, and shining teeth. Her beauty was of an ethereal type.

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2. 缥缈的，纤薄的，轻飘飘的

   近义词：ethereous、delicate、light；亦参见Thesaurus:gaseous, Thesaurus:insubstantial, Thesaurus:subtle

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   • 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, 第 1 卷，第 3 页:

     Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius developes itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

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3. (有机化学) 乙醚的

   近义词：ethereous、etheric、etherical

   an ethereal solution ― 乙醚溶液

衍生词汇

• etherealisation
• ethereality
• etherealization
• etherealizing
• ethereally
• etherealness

 

参考资料

• “ethereal”，Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary，Springfield, Mass.：G. & C. Merriam，1913年，OCLC 800618302