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A jovial person is friendly and in a good mood, often in an open, warm, slightly loud way — the host who laughs easily and makes a room feel easy. It is cheer you can see, more social than quiet happiness, warmer than merely polite.
A jovial person is friendly and in a good moodjovial的人友善又心情好 often in an open, warm, slightly loud way常常是那種爽朗、溫暖、有點大嗓門的樣子 — the host who laughs easily and makes a room feel easy——就像那種笑得很開、讓整個場子都輕鬆起來的主人 It is cheer you can see這是一種看得見的開心 more social than quiet happiness比安靜的快樂更外放 warmer than merely polite也比只是有禮貌更溫暖
Next to cheerful it sounds a little older and a little more like a book, but people still use it, especially about hosts, uncles, and red-faced men in stories. It does not mean funny, though a jovial person may tell jokes.
Next to cheerful it sounds a little older and a little more like a book跟cheerful比起來，這個字聽起來比較老派、也比較書面 but people still use it但大家還是會用 especially about hosts, uncles, and red-faced men in stories特別是用來說主人、叔伯，或故事裡那種紅光滿面的男人 It does not mean funny它不是指好笑 though a jovial person may tell jokes雖然一個jovial的人可能也會講笑話
Though actually the word first meant under Jupiter: old star-readers said that planet made people merry. Nobody means the planet now. They just mean warm and jolly.
Though actually the word first meant under Jupiter不過實際上，這個字最早的意思是『在木星之下』 old star-readers said that planet made people merry古代占星的人說那顆星會讓人心情愉快 Nobody means the planet now現在沒有人是在講那顆星了 They just mean warm and jolly大家就只是要說溫暖、開朗
原始詞典資料5 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。
Jovialadj/ˈd͡ʒəʊ.vɪ.əl/
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obsoleteastronomynatural-sciencesPertaining to the planet Jupiter; Jovian.
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obsoletehuman-sciencesmysticismmythologyPertaining to the Roman god Jove or Jupiter (the counterpart of the Greek god Zeus), the god of the sky and thunder and the king of the gods; Jovian.
- I know the ſhape of's Legge: this is his Hand: / His Foote Mercuriall: his martiall Thigh / The brawnes of Hercules: but his Iouiall face— / Murther in heaven?
- It was pointed out in chapter 3 that [C. S.] Lewis liked to regard Jupiter as his personal presiding deity, but Mercury would have been almost as apt a choice, for Lewis had been extraordinarily favoured by that Intelligence whom, in ‘The Planets,’ he calls the ‘Lord of language’: both as a speaker and as a writer Lewis was uncommonly fluent. However, despite these talents, despite the fact that he saw Mercurial as well as Jovial strains in his paternity, and despite his opinion that Mercury shared with Jupiter a special need of rehabilitation, Lewis claimed no special relationship with the planet of the second sphere. In fact, he confesses that the Mercurial essence is almost beyond his grasp: […]
Jovialnoun/ˈd͡ʒəʊ.vɪ.əl/
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literaturemediapublishingAn inhabitant of the planet Jupiter; a Jovian.
jovialadj/ˈd͡ʒəʊ.vɪ.əl/
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Cheerful and good-humoured; jolly, merry.
- A melancholy boddy is not the kindeſt nurſe for a chearely minde, (the joviall complexion is ſoverainly beholding to nature,) […]
- The moſt ſecure, happy, Ioviall & merry in the worlds eſteeme, are Princes & great men, free from melancholy, but for their cares, miſeries, ſuſpicions, Iealoſies, diſcontents, folly, & madneſſe, I referre you to Xenophons Tyrannus, where king Hieron diſcourſeth at large with Simonides the Poet, of this ſubject.
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obsoleteastrologyhuman-sciencesmysticismPertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Jupiter; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1).
- This Planet [Jupiter] being a Fortune, and Friend unto nature, inclineth the native, upon this direction, not only unto healthfulneſs, but alſo to be jovial and merry, affable and pleaſant, and to delight in the company of religious men: […] [T]his direction importeth good from jovial perſons, and is an excellent time to have dealings with, or to receive any courteſie from, or benefit by them, […]
- As ☉ is near to a ⚹ of ♃, so did a jovial man endeavour to procure the purchase (after I began), but ♃ is cadent and in detriment, which shewed he should not prevail.
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。