| 词汇 | awe |
| 释义 | awe noun[ U ] uk /ɔː/ us /ɑː/ C2 a feeling of great respect sometimes mixed with fear or surprise: 敬畏;惊奇，惊叹 I've always held musicians in awe.我对音乐家们总是肃然起敬。 As children we were rather in awe of our grandfather.小的时候，我们对祖父非常敬畏。 You can't help but stand in awe of(= respect greatly and fear slightly) powerful people.在权势人物面前，你不由自主会毕恭毕敬。 to admire someone or something admireI've always admired her for her generous spirit. respectI respect her for what she has achieved, but I would have approached it very differently. think highly ofEveryone thinks highly of him. hold someone in high esteemHer colleagues in Washington hold her in very high esteem. hold someone in high regardHe contributed much to the life of York, and was held in high regard there. look up toShe was my older sister and I looked up to her. He's such an important man that I'm rather in awe of him. We looked on in awe as the gymnast performed her routine. The scenery was absolutely stunning - I remember gazing in a state of awe over the landscape. We listened in awe because her voice was remarkable for someone so young. As the champion played his shots, spectators looked on in awe. Showing respect and admiration admiration admire admiring admiringly approving approvingly forelock fulsome fulsomely fulsomeness glorify grovelling hallow pay your respectsidiom philogynist philogyny put someone on a pedestalidiom regild respectfully worshipful awe verb[ T ] uk /ɔː/ us /ɑː/present participleUKaweing or USawing to cause someone to feel awe: 使敬畏；使畏惧 I was awed but not frightened by the huge gorilla.那只硕大无比的大猩猩让我惊叹不已，但是我并不怕它。 Her paintings have awed and amazed the public for half a century.半个世纪以来，她的画作一直令公众叹服。 The audience was awed into silence by her stunning performance.她的出色表演令观众叹为观止，大家都屏气凝神地欣赏。 Surprising and shocking against all expectationsphrase amaze amazing amazingly astonish dumbfoundingly dynamite earth-shaking earth-shattering earth-shatteringly pull pull something out of the bag/hatidiom raise (a few) eyebrowsidiom reality check sensationalist turn-up for the book(s)idiom unbelievable walk walk in on someone world-shattering Related wordawed awe | American Dictionaryawe noun[ U ] us/ɔ/ a feeling of great respect, usually mixed with fear or surprise: I was too much in awe of him to address him directly. awe-inspiring If something is awe-inspiring, it causes you to admire or respect it a lot: Niagara Falls is an awe-inspiring sight. aweverb[ T ]us/ɔ/present participleawing The school kids were awed when Doug Flutie, the football star, entered the room. Examples of aweawe The awe and fear are internally related to what the ritual shows or says. Teachers' authority is seldom challenged, and this authoritative role awes the students into obedient listeners. The beauty of the creation has an emotional effect, which ought, at the very least, to inspire awe. The holiness of the object is what evokes emotional responses of awe, terror, admiration, worship, and so forth. The weird spectacle awed the soldiers into a sort of paralysis. The conclusion is followed by a helpful chronology and an awe-inspiring bibliography of primary and secondary sources. This is a terrific book, as in terrifying and awe-inspiring. The people held this idol in such reverence and awe that no one but his keepers dared approach or touch him. The effect is one of generosity, verticality, exclusivity, grandeur, dignity, awe. I have been in awe of him since. So it appeared to be suspended in the air; it must have been an awe-inspiring sight. I was in awe of the temper of the sound and the lyrics. Price writes that the yielding response is also a source of awe and facilitates the psychological investment that followers place in the leader. Why they should feel this supreme awe of man it is difficult to explain. Coal miners have in this sense become at once morally marginal and symbolically central, both despised and held in awe. See all examples of awe These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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