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If a speech, a letter, or a plea is impassioned, it is full of strong feeling. The speaker cares a lot, and you can hear it. It is usually a compliment: the feeling is warm and alive, not wild or out of control. You often meet it with speech, defence, plea, or appeal. Though actually, it is not the cousin of , which looks similar but means the opposite — no feeling showing. The im- here means “into” (filled with feeling), not “not”.
充滿熱情的;慷慨激昂的(多用來形容演說、懇求)
組成From impassion (“to fill with strong feeling”) + -ed. The verb impassion is im- (“into”) + passion.
同家族的字
- passionthe strong feeling this word is filled with
- passionatesame feeling, without the extra im-
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。
impassionedadj
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Filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.
- She was empassioned at that piteous act, / With zealous envy of the Greekes cruell fact / Against that nation […]
- The tears fell fast from the maiden's eyes as she closed her impassioned appeal, and hid her face in the bosom of her sister.
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。