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Bemusement is the noun: the state of being , and the look that shows it. You meet it in a few set shapes. "To my bemusement, …" opens a sentence about something that surprised and you. "With bemusement" and "in bemusement" describe how someone watched or listened. And it often follows a look or an expression: "a look of bemusement crossed his face." Because it is a noun, it can be counted like a substance rather than an event — you have some bemusement, not a bemusement. Like the rest of this family it is formal and written; a student is far more likely to need it for reading than for speaking. And like the rest of the family, it carries a light touch — bemusement is a mild, sometimes half-amused puzzlement, not distress. If someone is genuinely lost and worried, the word you want is confusion.
困惑、莫名其妙的感覺(名詞,語氣輕,偏書面)
組成bemuse + -ment. The -ment ending turns a verb into a noun naming the state or result of that action — it came into English through French from the Latin ending -mentum. You see it everywhere: move → movement, agree → agreement, enjoy → enjoyment.
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。
bemusementnoun/bəˈmjuːzmənt/
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The state of being bemused.
- Near-synonyms: preoccupation, perplexity, bewilderment, speechlessness (all sometimes overlapping in meaning)
- Wrex touches his grandfather's armor, his expression… thoughtful, perhaps? Krogan are hard to read. Then he shakes off his bemusement and grips his gun with renewed purpose.
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。