- 1極度興奮、狂喜；醫學上指（藥物或病症引起的）欣快感。中文的「幸福」是安穩長久的，euphoria 剛好相反——強烈、飄然，而且很快就退。
A very strong, almost floating feeling of happiness and excitement — much bigger than being pleased or glad, and usually short. That shortness is built into how people use the word: euphoria comes after a win, a first success, a wedding, an election result, and then it and ordinary life comes back. Writers often say so directly — 'the euphoria soon wore off', 'the initial euphoria gave way to hard work'. It is an uncountable noun: 'a feeling of euphoria', 'in a state of euphoria', 'a mood of euphoria', never 'a euphoria'. It has two homes. In ordinary and news English it describes crowds and moods — the euphoria after the team won, the euphoria in the stock market. In medicine it is a technical, neutral word for an high mood caused by illness, injury or a drug; doctors write 'the patient reported euphoria' with no praise in it at all. Because of that second home, and because the feeling is expected to crash, euphoria in adult writing often hints that the happiness is not quite grounded in reality.
From the word’s history
From Greek euphoria, from euphoros 'bearing well': eu- 'well' + pherō 'to bear'.
源自希臘文 εὐφορίᾱ：εὐ-「好」加 φέρω「承受」，原指承受得好。
組成From Greek euphoria 'a bearing well', from eu- 'good, well' + pherein 'to carry, to bear'. The old sense was about bearing something well — enduring easily — which slid into today's 'carried away by good feeling'.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
euphorianoun/juːˈfɔː.ɹi.ə/
- 1
An excited state of joy; a feeling of intense happiness.
- The runner was in (a state of) absolute euphoria after winning his first marathon.
- The effects caused by inhaling nitrous oxide gas, such as lightheadedness and euphoria, can be felt within seconds.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- gender euphoria
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。