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Fervour is the noun: the strong feeling itself, not the person who has it. Religious fervour, patriotic fervour, the fervour of a crowd singing together. It is heat of belief or emotion, not a mild liking. This spelling with -our is the British one; American English fervor. Both feel a little formal. The word does not tell you whether the cause is good. You can admire someone’s fervour, or you can worry about blind fervour — feeling so hot that thinking goes quiet. In older writing you also meet it for actual heat, but in modern English it is almost always about feeling.
熱忱、熱誠(英式拼法;美式寫 fervor)
fervor 是 fervour 的美式拼法,意思一樣。多益(TOEIC)用美式拼法。
fervor · fervour
組成Latin ferv- (the “hot / boiling” piece also in fervent) + -our, a suffix that makes an abstract noun.
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。
fervornoun/ˈfɜːvə/
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An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor.
- The coach trains his water polo team with fervor.
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A passionate enthusiasm for some cause.
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Heat.
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。