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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.
To amaze someone amaze某人 is to surprise them very much意思是讓他們非常驚訝——so much that for a moment they can hardly take it in驚訝到有那麼一下子反應不過來。Good news can amaze you好消息可以amaze你；a clever trick can amaze a crowd聰明的把戲可以amaze一群人；a kind act from a hard person can amaze the people who know them一個平常很硬的人做出善舉，也能amaze認識他的人。
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.
The usual shapes are常見的用法有amaze someone（amaze某人）、be amazed at or by something（對某事感到amazed）、and it amazes me that…（it amazes me that……）。The related words amazing and amazement are what you hear all day相關的字amazing和amazement你每天都會聽到；the old noun amaze而舊式的名詞amaze（指陷入驚訝的狀態）is now rare, almost a museum piece現在很少見了，幾乎是古董字。
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.”
Though actually不過其實，amazing has grown loose amazing這個字已經變鬆散了。People now call a sandwich amazing大家現在會把一個三明治說成amazing when they only mean "very nice,"其實只是想說「很不錯」，so the strong surprise has thinned in casual talk所以在口語裡那種強烈驚訝的意味變淡了。The verb amaze still holds more of the old shock動詞amaze還保留比較多原本那種震驚的力道。You amaze other people你是讓別人amaze；you do not "amaze" to mean "I feel surprise."你不會用"amaze"來說「我覺得驚訝」。
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，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。
amazeverb/əˈmeɪz/
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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?
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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: […]
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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.
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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.
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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/
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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.
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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.
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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; […]
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。