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If someone is agape, their mouth is wide open, usually because they are so surprised or shocked they have forgotten to close it. You can use it like an adjective (“she stood agape”) or like an adverb (“he stared agape”). It is a little ; in ordinary talk people more often say open-mouthed or with his mouth open. Though actually, English has another word spelled the same way, said ah-GAH-pay, meaning a kind of deep Christian love. That is a completely different word. This one is said uh-GAYP, and it is simply the state of .
嘴巴張得大大的、目瞪口呆(驚訝時;不是當「大愛」講的那個 agape)
原始詞典資料7 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。
agapeadj詞源 1/əˈɡeɪp/
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In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention; as with mouth hanging open.
- […] in himself was all his state, More solemn then the tedious pomp that waits On Princes, when thir rich Retinue long Of Horses led, and Grooms besmeard with Gold Dazles the croud, and sets them all agape.
- There I stand, agape like any country bumpkin
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Wide open.
- With his mouth agape and his hands clenched, Rufus Dawes, incapable of further speech, made a last effort to nod assent, but his head fell upon his breast; the next moment, the flickering light, the gloomy prison, the eager face of the doctor, and the astonished face of Vickers, vanished from before his straining eyes.
- He tries not to tear his victim's stockings, or whip too close to her stretched vulva, which shivers, unprotected, between thighs agape and straining, amid movements of muscle erotic, subdued, “monumental” as any silver memory of her body on film.
agapeadv詞源 1/əˈɡeɪp/
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In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention.
- Three of us--two biologists and I--were crouched behind a huge boulder at the water's edge and staring agape as the largest bear I ever saw came toward us
- "This is Sammy 91," he told the two dozen tourists watching agape."
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Open wide.
- Its mouth yawned agape
- The bathroom door stood agape, and the peeling vinyl floor was bare.
agapenoun詞源 2/əˈɡɑː.peɪ/
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ChristianityThe love of God for mankind, or the benevolent love of Christians for others.
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Spiritual, altruistic, beneficial love which wills good for others.
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A love feast, especially one held in the early Christian Church in connection with the Eucharist.
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。