核心畫面
Picture being struck by a — for a second you just freeze, unable to react. Stunning is anything that hits you that hard, whether with beauty or with shock.
可以想成被一記雷打中的那一瞬間：你整個人愣住、反應不過來。stunning 就是形容那種力道——不管是美到讓你愣住，…更多收起
可以想成被一記雷打中的那一瞬間：你整個人愣住、反應不過來。stunning 就是形容那種力道——不管是美到讓你愣住，還是驚人到讓你說不出話。From the word’s history
From stun, via Old French estoner, from Vulgar Latin *extonare 'to leave thunderstruck' (ex- 'out' + tonare 'to thunder'). Being stunned is literally being hit as if by thunder.
來自 stun，再往上是古法文 estoner、通俗拉丁文 *extonare（ex-「出」＋tonare「打雷」），字面就是「被雷劈到、被雷震住」。所以 stunning 骨子裡是那種像雷一樣把人震住的衝擊力。
etymonline.com/word/stunning; etymonline.com/word/stun
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。
stunningadj詞源 1
- 1
Having an effect that stuns.
- The stunning jolt from the taser gun made the criminal stop fleeing.
- At length a univerſal hubbub wild, Of ſtunning ſounds and voices all confus'd, Borne through the hollow dark, aſſaults his ear
- 2
informalExceptionally beautiful or attractive.
- That woman is stunning!
- What if the very things you like in me now—you'd hate sometime. What if the things I think are strong and stunning in you now, I'd think were pig-headed and kickable after a while?
- 3
informalAmazing; wonderfully good.
- The film was stunning.
- So it was against the run of play that their London rivals took the lead two minutes before the interval through Drogba. He rolled William Gallas inside the area before flashing a stunning finish high past keeper Carlo Cudicini.
stunningnoun詞源 2
- 1
The act by which a person or animal is physically stunned.
- He wished he had tens of thousands more troops under Andez's control so he could round up every one of these demonstrators. But it was futile to continue cracking down. The stunnings, beatings and arrests had only inflamed them further.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。