单词 | astonishment |
释义 | as·ton·ish·ment 1. a. obsolete b. obsolete c. archaic < astonishment though not in itself fear is nevertheless a good stage towards it — T.L.Peacock > d. < saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people — H.G.Wells > < children watching with astonishment and delight > < in his first astonishment he had stopped dead short — Joseph Conrad > < sincere women sometimes express their astonishment over the exaggerated sense of romance … which many men show — Theodor Reik > 2. < a never-ending astonishment to his parents > < my first meeting with Oscar Wilde was an astonishment — W.B.Yeats > < the book races on from one astonishment to the next — Dan Wickenden > |
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