ethereal

英語

其他形式

• etherial
• aethereal, aetherial (古舊)
• æthereal, æthereall, ætherial, ætheriall (棄用)

詞源

源自拉丁語 aetherius (「與天空、高空有關的」)，源自古希臘語 αἰθέριος (aithérios, 「與高空有關的」)。可作ether +‎ -ial分析。

發音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /ɪˈθɪə.ɹɪ.əl/
• (美國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ɪˈθɪɚ.i.əl/

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形容詞

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

1. 天上的，天界的

   近義詞：aereous、celestial、mystical、otherworldly、transcendental；亦參見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; 再版為 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.

     既然要啟程離開，就請上路，天上的客人，太空中的信使，接受派遣，來自我所崇拜的至善的上帝。

   • 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, 第 2 卷，第 25–26 頁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. 縹緲的，纖薄的，輕飄飄的

   近義詞：ethereous、delicate、light；亦參見Thesaurus:gaseous, Thesaurus:insubstantial, Thesaurus:subtle

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

     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. (有機化學) 乙醚的

   近義詞：ethereous、etheric、etherical

   an ethereal solution ― 乙醚溶液

衍生詞彙

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

 

參考資料

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