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If someone is ebullient, they are very happy and , and it shows — they talk, smile, move, as if the feeling is bubbling out of them. The word is a little formal; in everyday talk people more often say cheerful, , or bubbling. Writers like ebullient because it keeps that Latin picture of boiling over. You can call a mood or a crowd ebullient, not only a person. It is almost always positive, stronger than ‘pleased’ and livelier than ‘happy.’ A quiet person can be deeply glad without being ebullient.
興高采烈的;熱情洋溢的(較書面)
組成Borrowed from Latin ēbulliēns (‘boiling’), the present participle of ēbulliō (‘to boil’), from bulliō (‘to bubble up’) — the same root as English boil.
同家族的字
- ebulliencethe noun; the overflowing happiness itself
- boilfrom the same Latin bulliō
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。
ebullientadj/ɪˈbʊliənt/
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Enthusiastic; high-spirited.
- The Spring will come with its ebullient blood, / With flush of roses and imperial eyes
- Marina's oddly ebullient words seemed to come to her slow as balloons
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archaicOf a liquid: boiling and bubbling, or agitated as if boiling.
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archaicCausing heat.
- It is allowed, that Senates and great Councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant Humours, with many Diſeaſes of the Head and more of the Heart; with ſtrong Convulſions, with grievous Contractions of the Nerves and Sinews in both Hands, but eſpecially the Right; with Spleen, Flatus, Vertigos and Deliriums; with Scrophulous Tumors full of fœtid purulent Matter; with ſower frothy Ructations, with Canine Appetites and Crudeneſs of Digeſtion, beſides many others needleſs to mention.
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。