喜樂美語
  1. 1難以想像、覺得不可思議

    If your mind boggles, you cannot quite hold the idea — it is too big, too strange, or too much to accept. The set phrase is “the mind boggles.” People also turn it round: “It boggles the mind.” You say it when you want to show you are , not when you are quietly unsure. The same verb can mean you stop short: if you boggle at a price, you hesitate because it shocks you. Long ago, a horse that jumped in was said to boggle. The word is a variation of bogle, an old word for a or a scare-spirit, and it may be a cousin of bug in the “something that scares you” sense — though that last link is only a maybe. There is a word-game called Boggle; that is a brand name with the same spelling, not a new sense of this verb.

組成A variation of bogle (an old scare-spirit / goblin word), possibly a cousin of bug in the “scare” sense.

同家族的字

  • boglethe older goblin / scare-spirit word that boggle probably comes from
  • mind-bogglingthe adjective from this verb: so strange or huge that the mind boggles

原始詞典資料9 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

boggleverb詞源 1/ˈbɒɡ.əl/

  • 1

    (literally or figuratively) to stop or hesitate as if suddenly seeing a bogle.

    • The dogs went on, but the horse boggled at the sudden appearance of the strange beast.
    • The horror of the deed and its consequences boggle the imagination.
  • 2

    To be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.

    • He boggled at the surprising news.
    • The mind boggles.
  • 3

    To confuse or mystify; overwhelm.

    • The vastness of space really boggles the mind.
    • The oddities of quantum mechanics can boggle the minds of students and experienced physicists alike.
  • 4

    dialectalTo embarrass with difficulties; to palter or equivocate; to bungle or botch

  • 5

    obsoleteTo dissemble; to play fast and loose (with someone or something).

    • I would be loth to exchange consciences with them, and boggle so with God Almighty; but these men by a new kind of Metaphysick have found out a way to abstract the Person of the King from his Office to make his Soveraigntie a kinde of Platonick Idea hovering in the aire, while they visibly attempt to assail and destroy his person […]
  • 6

    To wiggle the eyes as a result of bruxing.

bogglenoun詞源 1/ˈbɒɡ.əl/

  • 1

    datedA scruple or objection.

  • 2

    datedA bungle; a botched situation.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • bogle

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