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Awe-stricken means the same as : so filled with awe that you almost cannot move or speak. It describes the person, not the mountain. The second half, stricken, is an old past form of strike — as if the feeling has hit you. Though actually, stricken in other phrases often sounds dark (, ), so awe-stricken can feel a little heavier and more old-fashioned than . You will meet it in stories more than in speech. People standing below a huge waterfall, or hearing a choir in a stone church, might be awe-stricken.
敬畏得愣住的(較書面;等於 awestruck)
組成awe + stricken (hit hard by a feeling). Same idea as awestruck.
同家族的字
- awethe feeling
- awestruckthe usual modern spelling of the same idea
- aweda quieter way to say you feel that respect and smallness
- awe-inspiringdescribes the thing that causes the feeling, not the person
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。
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。