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单词 to gloat on, upon, or over
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to gloat on, upon, or over
3. To gaze with intense or passionate satisfaction (usually implying a lustful, avaricious or malignant pleasure). Now almost exclusively to gloat on, upon, or over: to feast one's eyes upon, to contemplate, think of, or dwell upon with fierce or unholy joy.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > stare or gaze > with joy or satisfaction
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > be joyful or delighted [verb (intransitive)] > dwell on with fierce or unholy joy
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1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. xiii. 89 [The spider] suspends it [sc. the fly], as if for a spectacle to be exulted over: Then stalking to the door of his cell, turns about, glotes over it at a distance.
1763 C. Churchill Epist. to W. Hogarth 16 Hogarth, a guilty pleasure in his eyes, The place of Executioner supplies. See how he glotes, enjoys the sacred feast, And proves himself by cruelty a priest.
1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams III. x. 181 Mr. Spurrel perfectly gloted, with eyes that seemed..to devour every thing that passed.
1801 ‘P. Pindar’ Tears & Smiles 91 The Youth upon her tuneful lips Did full of rapture glote.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xx. 322 Over such [books] the eye of Dominie Sampson gloated with rapture.
1840 W. Irving Ralph Ringwood in Knickerbocker Mag. Sept. 265 Never did miser gloat on his money with more delight.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 510 He had caught the scent of carnage, and came to gloat on the butchery in which he could no longer take an active part.
1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth IV. 7 Her sweet eyes turned and gloated on the little face..in silence.
1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. xxiv. 557 Circumstances..which are gloated over in the vile letters of..Northampton.
1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 347 He..rejoiced greatly in gloating over the mysteries of iniquity.
1884 S. St. John Hayti iii. 93 Soulouque went with his staff to inspect their mangled bodies..and gloat over the scene.
1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird I. iii. 95 What ghouls people must be to gloat over such a subject.
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