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Ecstatic means feeling an extreme, kind of happiness — stronger than just 'very happy'. You'd use it for a moment of huge, almost joy, like winning something you worked years for, or hearing wonderful news you weren't expecting.
欣喜若狂的、狂喜的
組成From Greek ek- (out) + stasis (standing) — originally meaning to feel so much emotion you seemed to stand outside your own body.
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- ecstasyecstatic is the adjective for being in a state of ecstasy, extreme joy
原始詞典資料5 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。
ecstaticadj/ɛkˈstætɪk/
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Feeling or characterized by ecstasy.
- [W]hilſt he heſitated there, the criſis of pleaſure overtook him, and the cloſe compreſſure of the vvarm ſurrounding fold, drevv from him the extatic guſh, even before mine vvas ready to meet it, kept up by the pain I had endur'd in the courſe of the engagement, from the unſufferable ſize of his vveapon, tho' it vvas not as yet in above half its length.
- The moment of ejaculation in mammiferous animals is accompanied by universal excitement of the whole body, a kind of slight convulsion, which terminates in a comatose or exstatic state.
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Extremely happy.
- Bobbie was dancing round the room on the tips of her toes uttering animal cries, apparently ecstatic in their nature.
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Relating to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion.
- ecstatic gaze ecstatic trance
- this ecstatic fit of love and jealousy
ecstaticnoun/ɛkˈstætɪk/
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Transports of delight; words or actions performed in a state of ecstasy.
- I think that Dante's more abstruse ecstatics / Meant to personify the Mathematics.
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A person in a state of ecstasy.
- If there is anything that can be called protoscripture, it is surely the utterances of ecstatics, prophets and seers...
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。