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To rhapsodize is to talk about something in a rush of excitement and praise — as if you cannot help going on and on. You rhapsodize about a view, a meal, a person you admire. It is not an everyday verb; it sounds a little , and sometimes a little teasing, as if the speaker is being extra. Though actually it does not have to be about music: a rhapsody in music is a free, emotional piece, and this verb grew from that noun plus -ize (to do that kind of thing in speech). British spelling is often rhapsodise. Use it when the praise is warm and , not for a calm “I liked it.”
極口稱讚、讚不絕口（不是「狂想曲」那個音樂意思）
組成rhapsody + -ize（去做那件事）。From rhapsody + -ize.
同家族的字
- rhapsodythe noun this verb is built from — a free, emotional piece of music, and older excited speech
原始詞典資料4 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。
rhapsodizeverb
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To speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm (about, (up)on or over something).
- The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! […] You will think me rhapsodizing; but when I am out of doors, especially when I am sitting out of doors, I am very apt to get into this sort of wondering strain.
- How can one rhapsodise over a view when surrounded by beer-stained tables? How lose one’s self in historical reverie amid the odour of roast veal and spinach?
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To say (something) with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm.
- “It’s a long time since I tasted such a borshtch! Simply a vivifier! It melts in every limb!”" he kept rhapsodizing, between mouthfuls. “It ought to be sent to the Chicago Exposition. The missess would get a medal.”
- “Listen, my pearl,” he rhapsodized. “I have money now and you shall have dresses like rainbows, a gold tiara and slave girls to wait on you […]”
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To recount or describe (something) as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody.
- The campaigns themselves will take up as many books; and therefore I apprehend it would be hanging too great a weight of one kind of matter in so flimsy a performance as this, to rhapsodize them, as I once intended, into the body of the work […]
- The great poetry of the opening chapter of Ulysses […] amplifies and rhapsodizes the world with an unlooked-for accuracy and transport.
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To perform a rhapsody.
- […] Carolan, the last of the Irish bards, rhapsodized in the halls of the O’Connors so lately as the year 1730.
- Should one gather statistics of the enormous production of poetry some sixty or seventy years ago, they would scarcely appear credible. Journals and magazines teemed with it. Editors openly countenanced it. Even the daily press affected it. Love sighed in home-made stanzas. Patriotism rhapsodized on the hustings, or cited rolling hexameters to an enraptured legislature.
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。