- 1懷舊的
If you feel nostalgic about a time in the past, remembering it makes you happy, and in some ways you wish things had not changed. You are usually nostalgic about something: a place, a year, a song, a person as they were then. People also call things nostalgic — a film, a photo, a smell — when those things wake the feeling up, even though a song cannot itself 'feel'. That second use is very common. The word is ordinary English, a little softer and more thoughtful than just 'I miss it'. It is not the same as : is wanting to go back to a place you belong; nostalgic is wanting a time, or the feeling of a time, that cannot come back in the same way.
From the word’s history
From nostalgia + -ic.
nostalgia「懷舊」加上 -ic。
組成nostalgia + -ic (turns the noun into an adjective). The same Greek pieces sit inside: nostos, 'returning home', and algos, 'pain'.
同家族的字
- nostalgiathe noun for the feeling itself
- nostalgicallythe adverb: in a way that shows this 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。
nostalgicadj
- 1
Of, having, or relating to nostalgia.
- And here, as I write, the faint, scarcely perceptible, ghost-like suspicion of a scent—a mere nostalgic fancy, compound, generic, synthetic and all-embracing—an abstract olfactory symbol of the "Tout Paris" of fifty years ago, comes back to me out of the past; and fain would I inhale it in all its pristine fulness and vigour.
- And it was their voices which affected Gudrun almost to swooning. They aroused a strange, nostalgic ache of desire, something almost demoniacal, never to be fulfilled.
nostalgicnoun
- 1
A person who displays nostalgia for something.
- But of course every well-brought-up person to-day knows that the Victorians were sentimentalists, nostalgics, escapists, self-deceivers.
- In Bow Street court next morning, the slapper proved to be a paid agent of a group of nostalgics who call themselves The League of Empire Loyalists.
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