- 1使心神不寧、使方寸大亂（書面）
To discompose someone is to take away their calm. They were steady, and now they are worried, flustered, or no longer at peace. You can discompose a person with sudden news, a sharp question, or a scene they did not expect; writers also use it of a face or manner that has lost its quiet look. It is a , rather old-fashioned verb. In everyday talk people would say upset, , or rattle. You will meet it in older novels and careful prose more than in speech. Though actually, it has nothing to do with rotting: that is decompose, a spelling trap sitting right beside it.
組成From dis- (“apart; the opposite”) + compose (“to settle, to put in order”): to undo someone’s composed, settled state.
同家族的字
- composethe other side of the same pieces: to settle yourself, or to put parts in order
- composurethe calm that this verb takes away
- discomposurethe noun for the state of no longer being calm
原始詞典資料2 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。
discomposeverb
- 1
To destroy the composure of; to disturb or agitate.
- I am glad I have done being in love with him. I should not like a man who is so soon discomposed by a hot morning.
- You will not be discomposed by the Lord Chancellor, I dare say?
- 2
To disarrange, or throw into a state of disorder.
- If e'er with airy horns I planted heads, Or rumpled petticoats, or tumbled beds, Or caus'd suspicion when no soul was rude,
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