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Picture a dog at the door with its lead already in its mouth, or a child sitting forward on the edge of a chair waiting to be picked. The body is leaning towards the thing that hasn't happened yet. Eager is that forward lean — wanting something soon, and showing it.
可以想成：狗狗叼著牽繩站在門口，或是小孩坐在椅子邊緣、身體往前傾等著被叫到名字。整個人是朝著「還沒發生的那件事」傾過…更多收起
可以想成：狗狗叼著牽繩站在門口，或是小孩坐在椅子邊緣、身體往前傾等著被叫到名字。整個人是朝著「還沒發生的那件事」傾過去的。eager 說的就是這股前傾——想要，而且快要忍不住表現出來。原始詞典資料10 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。
Eagername
- 1
A surname.
eageradj詞源 1/ˈiɡɚ/
- 1
Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
- Stacey is very eager to go cycling this weekend.
- The hounds were eager in the chase.
- 2
computingcomputing-theoryengineeringNot employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.
- an eager algorithm
- 3
datedBrittle; inflexible; not ductile.
- gold itself will be sometimes so eager, (as artists call it), that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself
- 4
obsoleteSharp; sour; acid.
- like eager droppings into milk
- 5
obsoleteSharp; keen; bitter; severe.
- If so thou thinkest, vex him with eager words.
- It is a nipping and an eager air.
eagerverb詞源 1/ˈiɡɚ/
- 1
To be or become eager.
- Now everybody considered it a high privilege (valued it at a high consideration) to see him and to hear him speak, and to obey his command (him commanding), whereas he, though being such a person, eagered to be unknown, and to escape notice in solitude.
- Our spirits fret and chafe like sea waves on the rocks eagering to climb the shore.
- 2
To express eagerness.
- His hair crinkled towards her fondly. "Yes," he eagered.
- Peg! eager voices eagered voicely.
- 3
To make or encourage to be eager
- Physicians also admit to eagering patients to turn to specialised web sites in order to read further.
- But they only eagered him to be off .
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。