喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a face lighting up — the bright, immediate kind of happiness that shows before you can hide it. The word can name that feeling, the thing that caused it, or the act of causing it in someone else.

可以想成：一張臉整個亮起來——那種還來不及收住就先寫在臉上的、明亮而立即的開心。這個字可以指那份感覺本身、指引發它的…更多收起可以想成：一張臉整個亮起來——那種還來不及收住就先寫在臉上的、明亮而立即的開心。這個字可以指那份感覺本身、指引發它的那樣東西，也可以指「讓別人產生這種感覺」這個動作。

From the picture

讓人開心的來源

鏡頭從心情移到源頭：讓你臉亮起來的那個人、那樣東西，本身也可以叫這個字。

something delightful · noun · B2

Something or someone that makes you feel very happy.

樂事；令人開心的事物

以某件事為樂

這個用法把樂趣接到一個持續的行為上：不是一次的高興，而是某人一再從做那件事裡得到快樂。

take delight in · noun · B2

In the phrase 'take delight in', to enjoy something very much — sometimes something a bit cheeky.

以…為樂

Also in this word

joy · noun · B1

A strong feeling of happiness, especially when something good has just happened.

喜悅；開心

原始詞典資料6 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。

Delightname

  • 1

    A place in the United States:

  • 2

    A place in the United States:

delightnoun/dəˈlaɪt/

  • 1

    Joy; pleasure.

    • A fool hath no delight in understanding.
    • […] the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
  • 2

    Something that gives great joy or pleasure.

    • Greensleeves was all my joy / Greensleeves was my delight, […]
    • […] Awake My fairest, my espous’d, my latest found, Heav’ns last best gift, my ever new delight,

delightverb/dəˈlaɪt/

  • 1

    To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.

    • Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds.
    • A beautiful landscape delights the eye.
  • 2

    To have or take great pleasure.

    • A ſclaunderous tunge, a tunge of a ſkolde, Worketh more miſchiefe than can be tolde; That, if I wiſt not to be controlde, Yet ſomwhat to ſay I dare well be bolde,
    • For I have loved you well and long, / Delighting in your company.

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。