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To astound someone is to surprise them so much that they are almost knocked still — often surprise mixed with shock. It sits right beside astonish; many speakers treat the two as twins. If there is a shade of difference, astound is a little heavier, a little more “I have no words.” You astound a person; news can astound you. It is not the most common verb in chat. Stories, reviews, and slightly careful English use it more. Though actually, the adjective astounded is heard far more in everyday speech than the verb astound itself. There is an older adjective astound meaning “stunned,” but modern English almost always uses astounded for that.
使震驚、使驚愕
組成From Middle English astouned / astoned, the old past form of the same verb as astonish. English later used that past form as a verb of its own. Same family as astonish; more at that word.
同家族的字
- astonishsame Middle English “stun” family; both grew out of an older verb
- astoundedthe usual adjective from this verb
- astoundingthe -ing adjective: a thing is astounding
原始詞典資料2 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。
astoundverb/əˈstaʊnd/
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To astonish, bewilder or dazzle.
- 1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 8, These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The vertuous mind […]
- The yell which Isaac raised at this unfeeling communication made the very vault to ring, and astounded the two Saracens so much that they let go their hold of the Jew.
astoundadj/əˈstaʊnd/
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obsoleteStunned; astounded; astonished.
- […] his hollow eyne Lookt deadly dull, and stared as astound;
- For some Moments the Esquire stood astound, he rubb’d his Eyes, look’d on his Sister, stared at the Maid:
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。