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单词 fervor
释义 fer·vor
\ˈfərvər, ˈfə̄və(r, ˈfəivə(r\ noun
(-s)
Usage: see -or
Etymology: Middle English fervour, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French ferveur, from Latin fervor, from fervēre to boil, glow + -or
1. : intense heat
 < those deserts … whose … fervors scarce allowed a bird to live — P.B.Shelley >
2.
 a. : intensity of feeling or expression : passion
  < rejected communism with as much fervor as they had accepted it — Margaret Marshall >
  < she cried quietly but with fervor — Robert Murphy >
 specifically : deep or excited interest in or enthusiasm for something
  < the book has been greeted by Frenchmen with a fervor that no previous book on art ever aroused — George Duthuit >
  : earnestness
  < the moral fervor of a reformer >
  < ages of spiritual fervor … in which … men have been unusually excited about their souls — Clive Bell >
  : zeal
  < the tackling on both sides attains the fervor of a holy war — New Yorker >
 b. : an instance of emotional fervor
  < the almost hysterical fervors of wartime >
Synonyms: see passion
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