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If you are disenchanted, you used to believe someone or something was good — even wonderful — and now you do not. The shine has gone.
If you are disenchanted如果你 disenchanted, you used to believe someone or something was good — even wonderful表示你曾經相信某個人或某件事是好的——甚至很棒 — and now you do not但現在你不再這麼想了。The shine has gone那份光彩已經消失了。
People say they are disenchanted with a leader, a job, a party, a city, or a whole idea they once loved. The grammar almost always wants with (sometimes by): disenchanted with .
People人們 say they are disenchanted會說自己感到 disenchanted with a leader, a job, a party, a city, or a whole idea they once loved對一位領袖、一份工作、一個政黨、一座城市,或曾經深愛的整個想法。The grammar almost always wants with (sometimes by)文法上幾乎都要接 with(有時候是 by): disenchanted with politicsdisenchanted with politics(對政治感到幻滅)。
Though actually, the older picture behind the word is magic: to enchant is to put a spell on someone; disenchanted is when that spell, or the feeling like it, has broken. In a fairy story that can be literal. In ordinary life it is a waking-up feeling.
Though actually不過其實, the older picture behind the word is magic這個字背後比較早的畫面是魔法: to enchant is to put a spell on someoneenchant 是對某人下咒; disenchanted is when that spell, or the feeling like it, has brokendisenchanted 就是那個咒語,或那種感覺,被解除的時候。In a fairy story在童話故事裡, that can be literal這可以是字面上的意思。In ordinary life在現實生活裡, it is a waking-up feeling它是一種清醒過來的感覺。
It sits close to disappointed, but disappointment can be about one event; disenchanted is more like the whole belief has cooled.
It它 sits close to disappointed跟 disappointed 意思很接近, but disappointment can be about one event但 disappointment 可以只是針對一件事; disenchanted is more like the whole belief has cooleddisenchanted 比較像是整個信念都冷掉了。
You will hear it in news and adult conversation; it is not childish slang.
You will hear it你會聽到它 in news and adult conversation在新聞和大人的對話裡; it is not childish slang它不是小孩子用的俚語。
組成dis- (undo / reverse) + enchanted (under a spell, or delighted as if by magic).
同家族的字
- enchantto put under a magic spell, or to delight someone that way; disenchanted is when that spell, or the feeling like it, is gone
- enchantmentthe spell or the wonder that has worn off
原始詞典資料3 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。
disenchantedadj
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Disappointed; having lost belief or enthusiasm through bad experience.
- I visited Chiang Kai-shek at a lake resort on Taiwan. Chiang still dreamed of returning to the mainland, and once again he urged that America support such an effort. He argued that the Chinese on the mainland were disenchanted with their leaders and ready to rally to another force.
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Having had a magical spell or enchantment removed; no longer enchanted.
- And the sword that had visited Earth from so far away smote like the falling of thunderbolts [...] and the runes in Alveric’s far-travelled sword exulted, and roared at the elf-knight; until in the dark of the wood, amongst branches severed from disenchanted trees, with a blow like that of a thunderbolt riving an oak-tree, Alveric slew him.
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。