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To exult is to show — often quite openly — that you are extremely happy and proud, usually because you have won, succeeded, or been proved right. Under the word there is an old picture of leaping up. You will meet it in news, novels, and speeches more than in everyday chat; a friend who passed an exam is more likely to say “I’m so happy” than “I exult.” Writers reach for it when the feeling is big and public: a team exults after a late goal. Though actually, it can sound cold if you exult over someone else’s failure — the word allows it, but kindness may not. It is a formal, slightly literary verb. In talk, people say cheer, celebrate, or just be overjoyed.
歡欣鼓舞；得意洋洋（成功之後、常是公開地開心）
組成From Middle French exulter, from Latin exsultō, frequentative of exsiliō (“jump up”), from ex- + saliō (“jump, leap”).
同家族的字
- exultantthe adjective from the same Latin verb
- exultationthe noun from the same Latin verb
- insultLatin salire “to leap”: insultare was “to jump at” someone
- resultLatin resultare “to spring back,” from the same leap root
- salientfrom salire: something that “leaps out”
原始詞典資料1 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。
exultverb/ɪɡˈzʌlt/
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To rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph; to triumph (over).
- I took a deep breath; a locomotive howled across-the darkness, Mobile-bound. So were we. I took off my shirt and exulted.
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。