单词 | ecstasy |
释义 | ecstasy (once / 484 pages) 1n 2n If you’ve ever been so happy that the rest of the world seemed to disappear, you’ve felt ecstasy — a feeling or state of intensely beautiful bliss. Ecstasy will make you want to write poetry. It happened to John Donne, whose poem “The Ecstasy” is about the feeling of the whole world vanishing when he looks into his lover’s eyes. Sometimes artists see an epic landscapes that caused such ecstasy that they had to turn it into a painting. Ecstasy can mean a feeling or it can also be a state of being, so you might say, “I’m in ecstasy because this pumpkin pie tastes so delicious!” WORD FAMILYecstasy: ecstasies, ecstatic+/ecstatic: ecstatically USAGE EXAMPLESOn Tuesday, the regulatory body gave the green light for a phase III trial of another contentious drug: using ecstasy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. Science Magazine(Dec 01, 2016) This week, the Food and Drug Administration approved a large-scale trial investigating MDMA, the illegal party drug better known as Ecstasy, for post-traumatic stress disorder. New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) San Bernardino County coroner’s officials announced Wednesday that the three accidentally overdosed on the drug Ecstasy. Seattle Times(Nov 30, 2016) 1 1n a state of elated bliss Syn|Hyper rapture bliss, blissfulness, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air a state of extreme happiness 2n a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion 2Syn|Hyper exaltation, rapture, raptus, transport emotional state, spirit the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection) n street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine Hyper MDMA, methylenedioxymethamphetamine a stimulant drug that is chemically related to mescaline and amphetamine and is used illicitly for its euphoric and hallucinogenic effects; it was formerly used in psychotherapy but in 1985 it was declared illegal in the United States |
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