| 单词 | to wonder |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wonder ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > terrible [phrase] > terribly or horribly to wonderc1000 c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints xxiii. 654 Ealle men hine fram stowe to stowe brudon and to wundre tawedon. c1230 Hali Meid. (1922) 23 Leccherie seið ‘schome þe menske of þi meidenhad,’ & tukeð hire to wundre [v.r. al to wundre]. a1300 Cursor Mundi 22606 Heuen he sal se part in sundre, And he sal here it cri to wonder. to wonder b. to a wonder, in early use also †to wonder [after French à merveille] , marvellously, wonderfully, marvellously well. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [adverb] wonderlyc897 sellya1000 wonderc1175 wonderfullya1300 marvellouslya1382 marvellousa1400 marvelly?a1400 wonderful14.. wonderslyc1489 to marvelc1500 wondersc1528 wondrously1535 prodigiously1541 wondrous1557 admirably1570 admiredly1598 to a miracle?1614 marls1615 amazingly1650 miridically1652 mirificously1657 surprisingly1661 to wonder1661 astonishingly1668 prodigious1694 strikingly1752 amazing1760 à merveille1762 astoundingly1826 mirifically1873 breathtakingly1887 eye-poppingly1959 mind-bogglingly1973 staggeringly1976 mind-blowingly1977 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 175 The unparallel'd Des-Cartes hath unridled their dark Physiology, and to wonder solv'd their Motions. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1658 (1955) III. 208 Sentences in Lat: & Greeke which on occasion he would produce even to wonder. 1698 J. Crowne Caligula iv. 31 Y'are to a wonder fair. 1751 tr. Female Foundling II. 11 He is better to a Wonder. 1792 W. Cowper Let. 11 June (1984) IV. 110 His motives were not, nor could be, of the amorous kind, for she was ugly to a wonder. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. xxxi. 279 I have flattered him to a wonder! 1843 W. M. Thackeray Mr. & Mrs. Berry ii He ties his white neckcloth to a wonder. < as lemmas |
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