frolic

英语

其他形式

• frolick

词源

源自荷兰语 vrolijk (“欢喜的”)，源自中古荷兰语 vrolijc，源自古荷兰语 frōlīk，源自原始日耳曼语 *frawalīkaz。对比德语 fröhlich (“开心的，快乐的”)。

前一个元素，最终源自原始日耳曼语 *frawaz并与中古英语 frow (“匆忙的”)同源；之后的元素，最终源自*-līkaz并与-ly、-like同源。

发音

• (标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈfɹɒlɪk/
• (通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈfɹɑlɪk/

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• 韵部：-ɒlɪk
• 断字：frol‧ic

形容词

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

1. (现罕用) 开心的，欢快的，欢腾的，闹腾的 （自16世纪30年代）
   • 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro” in Poems, London: Humphrey Moseley, p. 31,^[1]

     The frolick wind that breathes the Spring,

     Zephyr with Aurora playing,

     As he met her once a Maying

     There on Beds of Violets blew,

   • 1682, Edmund Waller, “Of Love” in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons, London: H. Herringman, 5th edition, 1686, p. 73,^[2]

     For women, born to be controul’d,

     Stoop to the forward and the bold,

     Affect the haughty and the proud,

     The gay, the frollick, and the loud.

   • 1766, Joseph Addison, The Spectator - Volume 5 - Page 304:

     You meet him at the tables and conversations of the wise, the impertinent, the grave, the frolic, and the witty; [...]

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   • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:

     Beale, under this frolic menace, took nothing back at all; he was indeed apparently on the point of repeating his extravagence, but Miss Overmore instructed her little charge that she was not to listen to his bad jokes [...].

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2. (弃用，罕用) 慷慨的，大方的

动词

frolic (第三人称单数简单现在时 frolics，现在分词 frolicking，一般过去时及过去分词 frolicked)

1. (不及物) 欢跃，欢闹，嬉戏 （自16世纪80年代）

   We saw the lambs frolicking in the meadow.

   我们看到羔羊在草地上嬉戏。

2. (及物，古旧) 使...欢快

变位

frolic的变位

不定式	(to) frolic
	现在时	过去式
第一人称单数	frolic	froliced
第二人称单数	frolic, frolicest1	froliced, frolicedst1
第三人称单数	frolics, froliceth1	froliced
复数	frolic
虚拟语气	frolic
祈使语气	frolic	—
分词	frolicing	froliced

¹古旧或弃用。

衍生词汇

• rollick

名词

frolic (复数 frolics)

1. 快乐，愉悦 （自17世纪10年代）
   • 1832-1888, Louisa May Alcott

     the annual jubilee […] filled the souls of old and young with visions of splendour, frolic and fun.

   • 2012 (original 1860), Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun - Page 276:

     By the old-fashioned magnificence of this procession, it might worthily have included his Holiness in person, with a suite of attendant Cardinals, if those sacred dignitaries would kindly have lent their aid to heighten the frolic of the Carnival.

2. 欢闹的举动
   • 1680, James Dillon, 3rd Earl of Roscommon, Art of Poetry

     He would be at his frolic once again.

3. (弃用，主要用于美国) 聚会
   • 1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:

     He came clattering up to the school door with an invitation to Ichabod to attend a merry-making or “quilting frolic,” to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel’s

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参见

• cavort

相关词汇

• frolicsome

参考资料

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989)，“frolic”，The Oxford English Dictionary，2nd版，Oxford：Clarendon Press，ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8