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awesome
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🇺🇸 /ˈɑsʌm/
🇬🇧 /ˈɔːsəm/
形容某事物令人敬畏、震撼,或在口语中表示“特别棒、很精彩”;也可作少见的名词用法。
💡 记忆钩子
核心画面是“强烈到让人忍不住惊叹”:最初是景象强大得令人敬畏,后来口语把这种强烈的惊叹缩成“太棒了、真带劲”。
📝 学习建议
- 先掌握形容词的两个主要意思:阅读中先留意“令人敬畏、震撼”,日常对话中则常表示“特别棒”。
- 不要把它固定理解成单纯的“可怕”;具体语境也可能是在热情地夸赞某事物。
📖 中文释义
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core 令人敬畏的;震撼的📖 形容规模、力量或景象强大到让人产生敬畏、惊奇,甚至有些害怕。它保留了“强烈到令人惊叹”这个核心感觉。💡 常用“awesome + 名词”描述景象、力量或经历,也可用于“an awesome sight”这类结构。这个意思较正式或偏书面,常见于描写自然景观、历史事件和宏大场面。不要只把它译成“很棒”,否则会漏掉其中的敬畏感。The waterfall was an awesome sight after the storm.暴风雨后的瀑布景象令人震撼。The team faced the awesome power of the ocean.这支队伍面对着海洋令人敬畏的力量。
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core 特别棒的;精彩的📖 口语中表示“非常好、令人兴奋或让人印象深刻”,是把“令人惊叹”的强烈感觉转成热情称赞。💡 常用“awesome!”单独感叹,也常放在名词前表示“特别棒的”。这是英语日常口语中很常见的夸赞说法,语气轻松而热情;在正式写作中可换成更中性的“excellent”等表达。不要在每个“好”字旁都机械使用它,否则会显得夸张。Australia Canada US colloquialThat concert was awesome!那场音乐会太精彩了!
more awesome
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awesomer
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most awesome
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awesomest
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rare 极棒的状态或事物📖 这是形容词名词化后的俚语用法,把“特别棒”当作一种品质或抽象状态来谈,基本仍围绕“令人惊叹”这个核心。💡 常见于“pure awesome”这类简短、夸张的口语或非正式文字中。它不是普通学习者优先掌握的标准名词用法,正式表达应改用表示“出色、精彩”或“卓越”的名词。abbreviation alt-of clipping slang uncountable
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rare 很棒的人📖 极少见的戏谑性名词用法,指一个被认为非常棒的人;它只是把“很棒的”临时当作人的称呼。countable informal
📘 英文释义 (WordNet)
共 1 组
inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; ; ; ; - Melville
同义词集:
amazing
awe-inspiring
awesome
awful
awing
New York is an amazing city
the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight
the awesome complexity of the universe
this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath
Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent
近似: impressive
🌳 词源
由表示“敬畏”的词和表示“充满……的”后缀构成,最早指能激起敬畏的事物,后来在口语中发展出“极棒”的意思。
From awe + -some; compare earlier awful and Middle English eiful (“inducing fright or terror, terrible”), from Old English eġeful (“fearful; inspiring awe”).
The oldest meaning of awesome is of “something which inspires awe”, but the word is now also a common colloquial expression. It was originally so used in the United States, where it had featured strikingly in the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, as used by Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to describe the "awesome" industrial potential of the United States. Consequently, as the word popularly became an expression for anything superb, in its original meaning it has tended to be replaced by the related word, awe-inspiring.
🔄 变式
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awesomest
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more awesome
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most awesome
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