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Describing a person whose mind has gone blank — from shock, from tiredness, from drink, or from too much of something dull. The commonest use is astonishment: you are stupefied by news so strange that you simply stare. It is stronger and more literary than 'surprised', and a bit stronger than 'stunned' too, because it says your thinking has actually clouded over, not just paused. The second use is physical dullness: stupefied with heat, stupefied by lack of sleep, stupefied by hours of television. Here it means slow, , not really present. Look for the phrases it lives in — 'stupefied by', 'stupefied with', and before a noun, 'a stupefied expression', 'a stupefied silence'. It belongs to careful writing more than to talk; a friend would say 'I was so out of it' or 'I couldn't believe it'.
目瞪口呆的、腦袋一片空白的
組成stupefy + -ed, the past participle used as an adjective. Behind stupefy is Latin stupeō, 'to be stunned or speechless' — the same root that gave English stupid and stupor.
原始詞典資料3 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。
stupefiedadj
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Experiencing stupefaction.
- One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare, / Stood stupefied, however he came there: / Thrust out past service from the devil's stud!
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Experiencing the influence of an ingested mind-altering substance.
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。