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To astonish someone is to surprise them very much — so much that they stop for a moment, thinking “I did not expect that.” It is stronger than surprise. It is usually wonder, not fear; shock can mean bad news or a , while astonish is often “I cannot quite believe this.” It is a slightly verb. In chat people more often say “I couldn’t believe it” or “that’s .” You still meet astonish a lot in stories, headlines, and school English. The surprised person is the object: you astonish someone. You can also say “it astonishes me that…” You do not “astonish to” a person.
使大吃一驚
組成Probably an older English verb astony / astone / astun (“to stun, to astonish”) with the ending later changed to -ish to match words like abolish, banish, and furnish. That older verb is stun with a prefix a-. There is also a rare Old French cousin, estonir / estoner, with the same meaning.
同家族的字
- astonishingthe -ing adjective from this verb
- astonishmentthe noun: the feeling of being astonished
- astoundsister verb from the same old “stun” family
- stunhistorically the same root; astonish was reshaped from an older astony/stun verb
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。
astonishverb/əˈstɒnɪʃ/
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To surprise greatly.
- "I have no right to give my opinion," said Wickham, "as to his being agreeable or otherwise. I am not qualified to form one. I have known him too long and too well to be a fair judge. It is impossible for me to be impartial. But I believe your opinion of him would in general astonish — and perhaps you would not express it quite so strongly anywhere else. Here you are in your own family."
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。