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If you are agog, you are and you want to know what happens next. Your attention is leaning forward. It is an old-fashioned, slightly word: you will meet it in stories and newspapers ("fans were agog") more than in a young person's chat, where people would say "dying to know" or "so ." It often comes with with: agog with curiosity, agog with excitement. It can sit before a verb ("waited agog") or after be ("they were agog"). It does not mean afraid. The feeling is eager, not worried — closer to a child outside a closed birthday-present box than to someone in trouble.
迫不及待、興致勃勃(較書面;口語會說「超想知道」)
組成From Middle English agogge, from Old French en gogues, "in a merry mood." The pieces are French, not English word-bits you can still hear.
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。
agogadj/əˈɡɑɡ/
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In a state of eager desire; full of anticipation; highly excited with curiosity.
- all agog
- Everyone’s agog at the new twist to the royal scandal.
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Wide open, agape.
- Cotton Mather came galloping down All the way to Newbury town, With his eyes agog and his ears set wide, And his marvellous inkhorn at his side;
- […] and did not move even when the frogs crept out of the water and listened, with their gold-rimmed eyes all agog, and their yellow throats palpitating.
agogadv/əˈɡɑɡ/
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In an astonished or excited manner.
- "Is this Mr. Mifflin?" she said, as he advanced all agog from his smoky corner.
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。