- 1被震懾住的;敬畏得說不出話。常當形容詞用:人還在,膽卻先小了。
Overawed is how most people meet this idea: someone has been made to feel that mix of respect and fear, and it has taken the words or the fight out of them. “She was overawed by the palace.” “Don’t be overawed — they are just people.” It is the past of , but it very often works like a describing word for a state you are in. The person feels small, careful, a little stunned — not merely pleased, and not merely terrified. You will see it in stories and in talk about first days, big , and meeting someone famous. Though actually, some speakers use it a little loosely to mean “very impressed”; the tidier sense still keeps that nervous hush.
組成overawe (over- + awe) + -ed (done; in that state).
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。
overawedadj
- 1
Impressed or convinced by someone to an unreasonable degree, sometimes with an implication of gullibility.
- One of the most depressing things about you, the people, says Daniel Hannan, is the way you're so overawed by experts. - Best articles: Britain: Our naive faith in non-political experts,The Week, 14 July 2007, 622, 14.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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