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To levitate is to rise and hang in the air as if nothing is holding you, or to make a person or thing do that. Magicians levitate a on stage; stories and films use it as a magic power. People also stretch the word: a singer “levitates” a crowd, meaning the feeling lifts them, and science writers say a train levitates when magnets hold it above the track. Though actually that train use is physics, not a spell, even if the verb looks the same. It is a somewhat verb; in everyday talk you are more likely to say float or rise.
懸浮；讓人或東西飄在空中
組成First attested in English in 1673; from New Latin levitātus, from levitō (“to move upward”), modeled on gravitō / gravitate (from Latin gravis, “heavy”). From Latin levis (“light, not heavy”) + -ate (verb ending).
同家族的字
- levitationthe noun: the act or the trick
- levitysame Latin levis, “light / lightness”
原始詞典資料2 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。
levitateverb/ˈlɛvɪteɪt/
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To cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity.
- The magician levitated the woman.
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To be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity.
- The guru claimed that he could levitate.
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。