- 1令人興奮的、刺激又暢快的（形容那件事，不是形容人）。比 exciting 多一分身體上的快感與一點危險感
Exhilarating describes a thing, an activity or an experience that gives you a rush of excitement and energy — skiing, a fast bike ride, a live performance, the first minutes of a new job in a new city. It is the everyday member of this word family; of all the words, this is the one you will hear and use most. Speakers like it because it is warmer and more physical than "": can describe news you read on a screen, but exhilarating usually involves your body being in it — wind, speed, height, effort, sound. It also carries a hint of danger or difficulty being part of the pleasure. That is why people pair it with words like "" and "scary" without contradiction: "an exhilarating and experience." It is a positive word, and quite a strong one, so it does not fit small pleasures. A good meal is lovely, not exhilarating.
From the word’s history
From exhilarate + -ing.
exhilarate（使興奮）加 -ing。
組成exhilarate + -ing. The -ing ending here makes an adjective describing what something does to people. Underneath: ex- (thoroughly) + Latin hilaris (cheerful).
同家族的字
- exhilaratedthe partner form — describes the person feeling it
- exhilarationthe noun for the feeling itself
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。
exhilaratingadj
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Refreshingly thrilling.
- Mrs. Palmer added, "that this news, though it could scarcely be called exhilarating, had had such an effect on her elderly friends, that they had determined to set out to Bath, and, when rested, proceed thence to Exeter, in order to be nearer the place where the vessel was expected, and to be a support to Lord Meersbrook, in case of the worst."
- The switchback road to Diabaig - pronounced 'Jer-vague' - passes through some of the most exhilarating scenery in Scotland. […] With a final swoop, the road plummets down into Diabaig, where cottages are dotted across the slopes of a rocky semi-circle.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。