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单词 rapt
释义
rapt
(ræpt )
adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
If someone watches or listens with rapt attention, they are extremely interested or fascinated. [literary]
I noticed that everyone was watching me with rapt attention.
Delegates sat in rapt silence as Mrs Fisher spoke.
Phillips had a rapt expression on his face.
He had held his audience rapt.
Synonyms: spellbound, entranced, enthralled, engrossed  
raptly adverb [ADVERB with verb]
...listening raptly to stories about fascinating people.
Collocations:
rapt silence
The audience listened in rapt silence, then erupted in cheers.
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Most visitors came to stand in rapt silence and then, in many cases, to immortalise the moment with a selfie.
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But rapt silence gripped the hall during the extraordinarily paced finale.
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What was impressive, almost uncanny, was the way in which they would fall into rapt silence the moment the music began.
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It will no doubt inspire rapt silence from a crowd eager to experience the return of one of the most original bands of this century.
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