- 1使大為驚訝、使驚奇
To amaze someone is to surprise them very much — so much that for a moment they can hardly take it in. Good news can amaze you; a clever trick can amaze a crowd; a kind act from a hard person can amaze the people who know them. The usual shapes are amaze someone, be amazed at or by something, and it amazes me that… The related words amazing and are what you hear all day; the old noun amaze (a state of being lost in surprise) is now rare, almost a museum piece. Though actually, amazing has grown loose. People now call a sandwich amazing when they only mean “very nice,” so the strong surprise has thinned in casual talk. The verb amaze still holds more of the old shock. You amaze other people; you do not “amaze” to mean “I feel surprise.”
From the word’s history
From Old English āmasian 'to confuse, astonish'.
源自古英文 āmasian「使困惑、驚呆」，從糊塗轉為驚奇。
組成From Old English āmasian (“to confuse, astonish”): ā- (a prefix that completes or intensifies the action) plus a verb related to maze (“to bewilder”). It can be read as a- + maze. The noun came later from the verb; today’s common noun is amazement.
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
amazeverb/əˈmeɪz/
- 1
To fill (someone) with surprise and wonder; to astonish, to astound, to surprise.
- He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.
- And all the people were amazed, and ſaid, Is this the ſonne of Dauid?
- 2
obsoleteTo stun or stupefy (someone).
- Inſtead of thinking hovv to remedy this diſorder by rallying ſuch troops as fled, or by oppoſing freſh troops to ſtop the progreſs of the conquerors, being totally amazed by this firſt blovv, he [Pompey] returned to the camp, and in his tent, vvaited the iſſue of an event, vvhich it vvas his duty to direct, not to follovv: […]
- 3
obsoleteTo bewilder or perplex (someone or oneself).
- The many musits thought the which he goes / Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes.
- [T]heir [flies'] breeding is ſo various and vvonderful, that I might eaſily amaze my ſelf, and tire you in a relation of them.
- 4
obsoleteTo fill (someone) with panic; to panic, to terrify.
- It [fear] amaſeth many men that are to ſpeake, or ſhevv themſelues in publike aſſemblies, or before ſome great personages, […]
- Novv you muſt bee ſure […] to carry the point or top of the Rod dovvnevvard; by vvhich meanes the ſhadovv of your ſelfe, and Rod too vvill be the leaſt offenſive to the Fiſh, for the ſight of any ſhadovv amazes the fiſh, and ſpoiles your ſport, of vvhich you muſt take a great care.
- 5
archaicTo experience amazement; to be astounded.
- Madam amaze not, ſee his Maieſtie / Returnd vvith glory from the holy land.
- Pealing rays and trumpet-blazes,— / Eye is blinded, ear amazes: […]
amazenoun/əˈmeɪz/
- 1
archaicAmazement, astonishment; (countable) an instance of this.
- All in amaze he ſuddenly vp ſtart / VVith ſvvord in hand, and vvith the old man vvent; […]
- His faces ovvn margent did coate ſuch amazes, / That all eyes ſavv his eyes inchaunted vvith gazes.
- 2
archaicFear, terror.
- [T]he whole rout was in amaze; his Lordſhip turned all manner of colours, my Lady fell into a ſwoon; […]
- He passed over Dor-nu-Fauglith like a wind amid the dust, and all that beheld his onset fled in amaze, thinking Oromë himself was come: for a great madness of rage was upon him, so that his eyes shone like the eyes of the Valar.
- 3
obsoleteStupefaction of the mind; bewilderment; (countable) an instance of this.
- [T]he panicles or thin skins [of a horse] vvhich cleauing to the bones, doe couer the vvhole braine, are ſubiect to headache, mygram [migrane], dizineſſe, and amazes; […]
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