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If you are besotted with someone or something, you love or want it so much that you cannot think or act in a sensible way.
If you如果你 are besotted with對某人或某事物besotted, love or want it so much that愛或想要到 cannot think or act in a sensible way無法理智地思考或行動的地步
A parent can be besotted with a new baby; a fan can be besotted with a singer.
A parent一個父母 can be besotted with可以對 a new baby新生兒besotted; a fan歌迷 can be besotted with也可以對 a singer歌手besotted
It is stronger than like, and a little less than in love — other people can see that you have lost your head.
It is stronger than這比 like更強烈, and a little less dignified than也比 in love少一點莊重, other people can see that其他人看得出來 you have lost your head你已經沖昏頭了
Though actually the older meaning is about drink: a sot was a person who drank too much, so besotted first meant made foolish by wine. You may still see that sense in older books.
Though actually不過其實, the older meaning is about drink較舊的意思跟喝酒有關: a sotsot(酒鬼) was a person who drank too much是喝太多酒的人, so besotted first meant made foolish by wine所以besotted原本是指被酒灌糊塗了. You may still see that sense你可能還會在older books較舊的書裡看到這個意思
Today, besotted with almost always means this helpless fondness, not alcohol.
Today今天, besotted with幾乎都 almost always means是指 this helpless fondness這種情不自禁的喜愛, not alcohol不是指喝酒
It is a little ; friends might just say crazy about. The usual pattern is besotted with, not a plain verb “to besot someone” in everyday talk.
It is a little bookish這個詞有點文謅謅; friends might just say朋友之間可能只會說 crazy about. The usual pattern常見的搭配是 is besotted with, not a plain verb而不是單純的動詞 "to besot someone"用法 "to besot someone" in everyday talk在日常對話裡
組成From besot + -ed. Besot is be- + sot. A sot is an old word for a heavy drinker, and so for a fool. The first picture was “made into a sot” — made foolish, often by drink.
同家族的字
- sotan old word for a drunk fool; besot is be- + sot
原始詞典資料4 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。
besottedadj/bɪˈsɒtɪd/
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Infatuated.
- Paris, you ſpeake / Like one be-ſotted on your ſweet delights;
- Much did I wonder that so good a knight as Brian de Bois-Guilbert seemed so fondly besotted on the charms of this female, whom I received into this house merely to place a bar betwixt their growing intimacy, which else might have been cemented at the expense of the fall of our valiant and religious brother.
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Intellectually or morally blinded.
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archaicIntoxicated, drunk.
- There are thousands who were begotten when both parents were besotted with drink, whose mothers saturated themselves with alcohol every day of their pregnancy, who may be said to have sucked in a taste for strong drink with their mothers' milk, and who were surrounded from childhood with opportunities and incitements to drink.
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。