aghast

英語

詞源

源自中古英語 agast、agasted，agasten (「使...恐懼」)的過去分詞，源自古英語 a-（對比哥特語 𐌿𐍃- (us-)、德語 er-，原指「外，出」） + gæstan (「驚嚇，虐待」)：對比哥特語 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgaisjan, 「驚嚇」, 字面意思是「通過恐懼定住」)，與拉丁語 haerere (「粘住，附着於」)同源。對比gaze、hesitate。

發音

• (美國) 國際音標^(幫助): /əˈɡæst/
• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /əˈɡɑːst/

  • （英國）音頻：

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  韻部：-æst, -ɑːst

形容詞

aghast (比較級 more aghast，最高級 most aghast)

1. 驚呆了的，驚詫的；恐懼的

   I was aghast when the incident unfolded in front of me.

   事情在我眼前發生，把我嚇住了。

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   • 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle., The Hound of the Baskervilles:

     And while the revellers stood aghast at the fury of the man, one more wicked or, it may be, more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her.

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   • 1985, Les Misérables, the song "Red and Black"

     I am agog! I am aghast! Is Marius in love at last?

   • 2003, Brian Herbert, 「Xanadu」, 出自 Dreamer of Dune‎^[1], New York: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC，第 259 頁:

     We sat at a long table with a huge salmon on a platter in the center, prepared Szechuan style. Dad sat at one end of the table, and regaled all present with his stories. In the middle of one convoluted yarn, he rose and went around to the salmon in the center of the table. Using his fingers, he dug an eyeball out of the fish, popped it in his mouth and swallowed it whole as we looked on, aghast. “A real delicacy,” he said, with a boyish smirk.

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   • 2013年8月14日, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Hart, for one, will not remember the night for Lambert's heroics. Morrison, not closed down quickly enough, struck his shot well but England's No1 will be aghast at the way it struck his gloves then skidded off his knees and into the net.

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異序詞

• Gathas, HA-tags, gatahs, gathas