喜樂美語
  1. 1n/ˌædməˈreɪʃən/欽佩；讚賞

    a strong feeling of respect and liking for someone or something, because you think they are very good at what they do or because of what they have done.

    admiration 是「看到別人很棒，心裡又佩服又喜歡」的那份感覺。它跟 respect 常常放在一起，但兩個的溫度不一樣：respect 可以很客氣、很冷靜（我尊重你的想法），admiration 通常還多一份喜歡，甚至有一點感動。它是不可數名詞，對象用 for（admiration for somebody），常說 have great admiration for、watch in admiration。可以想成 admiration 就像從動詞 admire（欣賞地看著）長出來的：眼睛先看見了很棒的事，心裡留下的那份感覺就是 admiration。

    示範例句 · Example

    I have great admiration for my grandmother — she learned to swim when she was seventy.

    中文翻譯我對我的祖母有很大的欽佩——她在七十歲的時候學會了游泳。

    常見搭配

    • admiration for somebody/something

      對某人／某事的欽佩

      the respect and liking you feel towards a person or thing

      Her admiration for her swimming coach grew every week.

    • have great/deep admiration for somebody

      非常佩服某人

      to respect and like someone very much

      I have deep admiration for teachers who make every child feel welcome.

    • watch / look in admiration

      帶著佩服的心情看著

      to watch someone with a feeling of respect and liking

      Sam looked at the finished painting in admiration.

    • express your admiration

      表達你的欽佩

      to say or write that you respect and like someone's work

      The head teacher expressed her admiration for the way the students helped each other.

    • win / earn somebody's admiration

      贏得某人的欽佩

      to do something that makes people respect and like you

      The young runner won everyone's admiration by helping a tired teammate finish.

    • be full of admiration for somebody

      對某人佩服得不得了

      to admire someone a lot

      I'm full of admiration for Terry — he practises every single day.

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

From Middle English admiracion, from Middle French admiration or Latin admīrātiō, from ad- 'to' + mīrō 'to look at'.

源自拉丁文 admīrātiō：ad-「向」加 mīrō「注視」。

Wiktionary

Picture your eyes going up to someone. You have seen what they can do, or what they got through, and two things happen at once: you accept that it was not easy, and you warm to the person because of it. Admiration is those two things stuck together — heavier than liking, warmer than respect.

可以想成一種「抬頭看」的感覺：你看見某個人做出來的東西，或看見他撐過的事，心裡先是承認「這真的不簡單」，接著那份承認又帶上一點喜歡。admiration 就是這兩樣黏在一起——比單純的喜歡多了分量，比冷冷的尊敬多了溫度。對象不一定是人，一件作品、一段風景也可以讓你產生這種感覺。

同家族的字

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

admirationnoun/ˌæd.məˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

  • 1

    A positive emotion combining wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful; a feeling of respect for another's skills or attributes, as one might look on a hero or role model.

    • admiration of a war hero
    • They looked at the landscape in admiration.
  • 2

    obsoleteWondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject).

    • Lear. Your name, fair gentlewoman? Goneril. This admiration, sir, is much o’ th’ savour Of other your new pranks.
    • 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.
  • 3

    obsoleteCause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise.

    • Now, good Lafeu, Bring in the admiration; that we with thee May spend our wonder too, or take off thine By wondering how thou took’st it.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。