- 1憤慨、義憤
Indignation is the feeling itself: the anger-and-surprise you get when something feels insulting or unfair. is the adjective; indignation is the noun you can feel, show, or fill a room with. People speak of “public indignation” when a lot of people share that feeling — after a cruel rule, a cheat, a slight. It is a fairly formal word, common in news and essays. Though actually, indignation can be fair or it can be . The word does not tell you whether the slight was large. It only names that hot, offended feeling. Keep it apart from : indignation lives in the chest; an is the shameful thing that happened to you.
組成From Latin indignātiō, from indignor, from indignus (“unworthy”): in- (not) + dignus (“worthy”). In English since about 1374.
同家族的字
- indignantthe adjective
- indignantlythe adverb
- dignityfrom the same Latin dignus, “worthy”
- indignitythe shameful situation, not the 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。
indignationnoun/ˌɪn.dɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/
- 1
An anger aroused by something perceived as an indignity, notably an offense or injustice.
- He protested in indignation.
- The Iron of it ſelfe, though heate red hot, / Approaching neere theſe eyes, would drinke my teares, / And quench this fierie indignation, / Euen in the matter of mine innocence.
- 2
A self-righteous anger or disgust.
- Having expressed his indignation at the idea of continuity from the young Marx to the old Marx and from Marx to Lenin, Miliband appears no less offended by my stressing the continuity from Leninism to Stalinism.
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