- 1nB2
/ˌædməˈreɪʃən/
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.
欽佩；讚賞
核心畫面
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…更多收起
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。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。