| 单词 | marvel |
| 释义 | marvel (mɑːʳvəl ) Word forms: marvels , marvelling , marvelled regional note: in AM, use marveling, marveled 1. verb If you marvel at something, you express your great surprise, wonder, or admiration. Her fellow members marveled at her seemingly infinite energy. [VERB + at] Sara and I read the story and marveled. [VERB] 'That's the weirdest thing I've ever seen,' marveled Carl. [VERB with quote] He marvelled that a man in such intense pain could be so coherent. [VERB that] Synonyms: be amazed, wonder, gaze, gape 2. countable noun You can describe something or someone as a marvel to indicate that you think that they are wonderful. The whale, like the dolphin, has become a symbol of the marvels of creation. [+ of] Synonyms: wonder, phenomenon, miracle, portent 3. countable noun [usually plural] Marvels are things that people have done, or that have happened, which are very unexpected or surprising. She almost died, but the hospital's skill achieved great marvels. He's done marvels with the team. It was a marvel that the floor never gave way. Collocations: marvel of nature He seems like a marvel of nature, untouched by human agency. Times, Sunday Times Only then did the heads turn on the other boat, too late to witness the marvel of nature that had taken place a few feet behind their backs. Times, Sunday Times The animated exhibition boasts its own monstrosities and marvels of nature. Times, Sunday Times His mind having become closer to a robot's than a human, he sees machines and robots as beauties and marvels of nature. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Rabbinic literature differs as to how this love can be developed, e.g., by contemplating divine deeds or witnessing the marvels of nature. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A technical marvel, but let down by wooden performances and a clunky plot. Times, Sunday Times After weeks of drilling, the rig, a technical marvel designed to tap the world's most remote fields, had struck oil. Times, Sunday Times It was then, and remains now, the longest and highest navigable aqueduct in the world, a technical marvel that nobody believed the engineers would pull off. Times, Sunday Times The technical marvels of the film are full of ingenious retro touches. Times, Sunday Times You'll get technical marvels, simple smiles, insights into manpower when it was still elegantly organised and trips across the country with the love letters of a nation. Times, Sunday Times Now, thanks to another technological marvel, those priceless secrets will be on display to the world. Times, Sunday Times Standing at 7-feet tall and pre-lit with over 800 commercial grade lights, this technological marvel can be yours for the low price of $599.95. Christianity Today The worldwide excitement of this technological marvel, the first tunnel built under a navigable river, was a great subject for the increasingly popular “peepshow” publications. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 And, in a technological marvel, it will keep a copy of the message for you to read later. ST It was to be a technological marvel in a landscape of aging, lethargic plants across the country. Globe and Mail Translations: Chinese: 大为赞叹, 奇迹 Japanese: 驚く, 驚異 |
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