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    If someone or something is adorable, they pull a warm, fond feeling out of you — the kind that makes you smile, your voice, or want to look after them. The old, strict sense is close to adore: so lovely it fills you with love.

    If someone or something is adorable如果一個人或一個東西是adorable,they它 pull a warm, fond feeling out of you會從你身上拉出一種溫暖、疼愛的感覺──the kind that makes you smile, soften your voice, or want to look after them那種會讓你微笑、放軟聲音,或想照顧他們的感覺。The old, strict sense舊的、比較嚴格的意思 is close to adore接近adore:so lovely it fills you with love可愛到讓你充滿愛意

    Though actually, in everyday talk it has become the slightly gushy word for “so cute I could melt” — a sleeping baby, a puppy, a tiny coat. Friends, especially, throw it at small sweet things and at people they are teasing with affection.

    Though actually不過事實上,in everyday talk在日常對話裡 it has become the slightly gushy word for 'so cute I could melt'它變成了那種有點肉麻地表達「可愛到快融化」的詞──a sleeping baby一個睡著的嬰兒、a clumsy puppy一隻笨拙的小狗、a tiny coat一件小小的外套。Friends朋友之間,especially尤其,throw it at small sweet things and at people they are teasing with affection常常用在小小可愛的東西上,也用在他們帶著疼愛調侃的人身上

    It is warmer than cute, and much lighter than worship. Used of a grown person you do not know well, it can sound as if you are talking down to them, like calling an adult a child.

    It它 is warmer than cute比cute更溫暖,and much lighter than worship而且比worship輕很多。Used of a grown person you do not know well用在一個你不太熟的成年人身上時,it它 can sound as if you are talking down to them可能聽起來像是你在把對方當小孩看,like calling an adult a child就像叫一個成年人「小孩」一樣

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組成From adore + -able (able to be adored). English borrowed the whole word from French, which had it from Latin adorabilis, from adorare (to pray to, to worship) + -bilis.

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  • adorethe verb: to love someone or something very much
  • adorationthe noun for that strong, looking-up kind of love

原始詞典資料1 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。

adorableadj/əˈdɔːɹəbəl/

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    Befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.

    • a romantic love song with adorable-sounding drum beats
    • Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。