1. 1

    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.

    使心神不寧、使方寸大亂(書面)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

    看看訂閱內容

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,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。

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,

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。