| 单词 | astonishment |
| 释义 | astonishment noun[U] uk/əˈstɒn.ɪʃ.mənt/us/əˈstɑː.nɪʃ.mənt/B2 verygreatsurprise: 惊愕；惊讶To theastonishmentofhercolleagues, sheresigned.她竟然辞职了，这让她的同事们大吃一惊。 Shegaspedinastonishment.她吃惊得倒抽了一口气。 Synonym amazement Feelings of surprise and amazement
Examplesofastonishmentastonishment The speed with which the requests from famous persons were treated can provoke nothing butastonishment. From theCambridge English Corpus If this sounds like pre-modern defeatism, it also indicates a way forward to the modern sublime in whichastonishmentforces a recoil to rational analysis. From theCambridge English Corpus Theastonishmenthe professed was pure theatre for the record. From theCambridge English Corpus These are people just discovering the nature of the entrapment of their world on film, and often their fascinated, gawpingastonishmentis all too evident. From theCambridge English Corpus To myastonishment, the judges did not agree with me. From theCambridge English Corpus He shared hisastonishmentwith many of his colleagues. From theCambridge English Corpus One might feelastonishment, perhaps awe before the whole, panentheistically qualified. From theCambridge English Corpus These anecdotes provoked gratifying looks ofastonishmentand plenty of questions as to who exactly was paying for this stuff. From theCambridge English Corpus The jeweled coffer was then opened, and to the greatastonishmentof the onlookers, a heart was found inside. From theCambridge English Corpus To theirastonishmentthe two patients soon started leading more active lives. From theCambridge English Corpus Rather, the plan met withastonishmentand opposition in most places. From theCambridge English Corpus Today a person's fright,astonishment, anger, excitement, sadness, aggressiveness and similar psychological states are regarded as important. From theCambridge English Corpus Perhaps to theastonishmentof his opponents, he did not try to inscribe the incompatibility between materialism/ republicanism and spiritualism/monarchism in the brain. From theCambridge English Corpus The response to this confrontational poetics was most certainlyastonishment. From theCambridge English Corpus This was exactly what transpired the next day, to everyone's greatastonishment. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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