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If you give someone an admiring look, your face or your words show that you think they are impressive, talented, or attractive. It is an adjective: it describes the look, the smile, the crowd, the tone. Warmer than just “interested,” lighter than worship. You can be admiring of a person, a skill, or even a building. Ordinary English, not especially formal. Though actually, students often land on the wrong twin: means “worthy of praise.” An person is the one being praised; an admiring person is the one doing the praising.
讚賞的；欽佩的
組成admire + -ing — here an adjective, not only the verb’s -ing form.
同家族的字
- admirethe verb this adjective comes from
- admirationthe noun: the feeling you show when you are admiring
- admirablerelated, but it describes the thing worth praising, not the person who is praising
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。
admiringadj/ædˈmaɪ.ɚ.ɪŋ/
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Feeling or showing admiration.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:admiring.
admiringnoun/ædˈmaɪ.ɚ.ɪŋ/
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admiration
- What more palpable confutation can there be of human vanity and arrogance, of all lofty imaginations, all presumptuous confidences, all turgid humours, all fond self-pleasings and self-admirings, than is that tragical cross […]
- We must keep up a constant worship of God in our families, and in our closets; we must be frequent in holy adorings and admirings of God.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。