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词汇 wonder
释义 wonder
verb
uk /ˈwʌn.dər/ us /ˈwʌn.dɚ/

wonderverb (QUESTION)


B1[ I ]
to ask yourself questions or express a wish to know about something: 疑惑;想知道
[ + question word ]Shouldn't you phone home? Your parents will be wondering where you are.你是不是最好给家里打个电话?你父母会想知道你在哪儿的。
He's starting to wonder whether he did the right thing in accepting this job.他现在开始怀疑自己接受这份工作是否正确。
[ + speech ]Will this turkey be big enough for eight, I wonder?我不知道这只火鸡够不够8个人吃。
"Have you decided where you're going next summer?" "I've been wondering about(= considering) going to Florida."“你决定好明年夏天去哪里了吗?”“我一直在考虑去佛罗里达。”
B1
used in phrases, at the beginning of a request, to make it more formal and polite: (用于短语中,使请求更加正式和礼貌)不知能否…
We were wondering if/whether you'd like to have dinner with us some time?不知道你是否愿意什么时候跟我们一起吃顿晚饭?
[ + question word ]I wonder whether you could pass me the butter?你能不能把黄油递给我?
I wonder if you could give me some information about places to visit in the area?不知你能否给我提供一些这个地区可供游玩的地方的情况。
I wonder what the future holds for you and me.
She wondered who'd sent her the mysterious email.她想知道是谁给她发的神秘电子邮件。
I was wondering if you'd like to come to the cinema with me this evening?不知你今晚想不想与我一起去看电影?
I wonder what it was about her upbringing that made her so insecure.我想知道究竟是什么样的成长经历造成她如此不自信。
When did he last brush his teeth, she wondered.她想知道他上次是什么时候刷的牙。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Thinking and contemplating
a brown studyidiom
agonize
agonize over/about something
beard-stroking
bethink
harbour
heart-searching
hit on/upon something
I/we'll (have to) seeidiom
in the cold light of dayidiom
introspect
navel
reckon
reflection
revisit
reweigh
rumination
run through someone's mind/headidiom
scratch your headidiom
weigh

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Polite expressions

wonderverb (SURPRISE)


[ I ]formal
to feel or express great surprise at something: 感到惊讶,觉得惊奇
[ + (that) ]I don't wonder (that) she burst into tears after the way you spoke to her.你那样对她说话,难怪她会突然哭起来。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Surprised
aback
agape
aghast
amazed
appalled
flabbergasted
flat-footed
gobsmacked
goggle-eyed
headlight
horror of horrorsidiom
jaw
not know what has hit youidiom
not know what hit youidiom
open-eyed
open-mouthed
palpitation
stalk
you have (got) to be kiddingidiom
your eyes pop out of your headidiom

Idiom


I shouldn't wonder
wonder
noun
uk /ˈwʌn.dər/ us /ˈwʌn.dɚ/
[ U ]
a feeling of great surprise and admiration caused by seeing or experiencing something that is strange and new: 惊讶;惊叹
The sight of the Grand Canyon stretching out before them filled them with wonder.大峡谷展现在眼前的景象让他们惊叹万分。
The boys gazed in wonder at the shiny red Ferrari.男孩子们惊讶地盯着那辆锃亮的红色法拉利跑车。
[ Cusually plural ]
an object that causes a feeling of great surprise and admiration: 奇观;奇迹;奇事
We spent a week visiting the wonders of Ancient Greek civilization.我们花了一周时间游览古希腊文明的奇观。
With all the wonders of modern technology, why has no one come up with a way to make aircraft quieter?既然现代科技创造了如此多的奇迹,为什么没人想个办法让飞行更安静一些呢?
[ C ]informal
an extremely useful or skilful person: 极其有用的人;能人
Our new babysitter's a wonder - she'll come at very short notice and the kids love her.我们家新来的保姆确实非常能干——她能在接到通知后很快赶来,而且孩子们也喜欢她。
Space travel is one of the wonders of modern science.
Running works wonders for the metabolism.跑步非常有益于新陈代谢。
In his poems everyday reality is invested with a sense of wonder and delight.在他的诗歌里,现实生活被赋予了一种奇妙和快乐的感觉。
After five years with the company she hadn't been promoted - small wonder then that she decided to quit her job.
The baby looked with wonder at the Christmas tree.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feelings of surprise and amazement
amazement
astonishment
bewilderment
future shock
incredulity
shock
stupefaction
surprise
wonderment

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Good and excellent things
Experts and specialists
Successful (things or people)

Idioms


work/do wonders
it's a wonder
little/small wonder
no wonder
wonders never cease

wonder | American Dictionary


wonder
verb
us/ˈwʌn·dər/

wonderverb (QUESTION)


to think about things in a questioning and sometimes doubting way:
[ I ]I often wonder about those kids.
[ + question word ]I wonder what he is doing here.
[ I ]Don’t you ever wonder if she’s happy?
wonder
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈwʌn·dər/

wondernoun[C/U] (SURPRISE)


a feeling of great surprise and admiration, or someone or something that causes such feelings:
[ U ]People simply stared at her in wonder.
[ C ]She’s a wonder!
[ U ]If you didn’t study, no wonder you failed the test.
[ C ]Among the wonders of medicine is anesthetic.

Idiom


it's a wonder

Examples of wonder


wonder
However, something extremely unlikely happens : those who witness the event do not wonder at it at all.
Not only were amazing new visual devices and technical wonders being offered: invisible worlds were suddenly made visible as if by magic.
One might wonder how children's pronunciation is influenced by the teachers' nonnative oral skills.
Little wonder, then, that out of the 254 papers and outlines received so far, it is the best that progress fastest into publication.
Finally, readers with a topological background may have wondered about possible generalizations of our approach to higher dimensions.
As tantalizing glimpses of the fully formed wonders to come, though, they offer a valuable perspective to anyone interested in this singular composer's musical evolution.
One may wonder what this static criterion means for cut-elimination.
It is little wonder that many elderly people should try to dissociate themselves personally from the false stereotype.
Columnists wondered why a century-old conference paper came in for such blistering attacks.
The reader might wonder about the role of political bias in attending to these petitioners.
It will be no wonder if in the future these sciences advance further and the things which today appear fully ascertained may be proven wrong.
One wonders how a life spanning such turbulent times, and an artistic output extended across thirty years, could remain so unaffected.
You may wonder how the existence of this extra reason could avoid the instability of the reason to which it is added.
With simulations, one must always wonder whether the findings are simply the result of fiddling with the parameters.
Sonbol wonders that "today women are fighting an uphill battle to achieve what their sisters already had a hundred years ago" (p. 80).
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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