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Think of a feeling turned up so high that it shows on the outside — in the voice, the face, the way someone throws themselves at a thing. Passionate is never quiet: whatever the feeling is about (a person, a belief, a hobby), it burns hot and it is visible.
可以想成：某種感覺被開到很大聲，大到藏不住，會從聲音、表情、投入的程度漏出來。passionate 從來不是安靜的—…更多收起
可以想成：某種感覺被開到很大聲，大到藏不住，會從聲音、表情、投入的程度漏出來。passionate 從來不是安靜的——不管那份感覺對著的是一個人、一個主張，還是一件喜歡做的事，它都是燙的，而且看得見。三個用法的差別，只在於這股熱度是往哪裡燒。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。
passionateadj詞源 1/ˈpæʃənɪt/
- 1
Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
- Mandy is a passionate lover.
- 2
Fired with intense feeling.
- 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions, Preface, in Samuel Johnson (editor), The Works of the English Poets, London: J. Nichols, Volume 31, 1779, p. 93, Homer intended to shew us, in his Iliad, that dissentions amongst great men obstruct the execution of the noblest enterprizes […] His Achilles therefore is haughty and passionate, impatient of any restraint by laws, and arrogant of arms.
- 3
obsoleteSuffering; sorrowful.
- She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.
- Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,
passionateverb詞源 2/ˈpæʃəneɪt/
- 1
obsoleteTo fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
- Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].
- 2
obsoleteTo express with great emotion.
- Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.
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。