astound
astound 英 [əˈstaʊnd] 美 [əˈstaʊnd]
vt. 使惊骇；使震惊
进行时:astounding 过去式:astounded 过去分词:astounded 第三人称单数:astounds 名词复数:astounds
- Astound means to amaze. Savants, or those with extreme brain abnormalities, can astound people by their ability to play Beethoven sonatas on the piano after having heard them only once.
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- vt. 使惊骇；使震惊
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1. This exhibit was not designed to astound but to interest.
这个展览并非要让任何人惊奇，只是想让人们感兴趣。
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2. To do that, you must delegate wherever possible the tasks that can be carried out by others - if you encourage, empower and motivate them the results will astound you.
为了能做到这点，你需要尽量把能去叫别人做的工作都交给别人去做——如果你鼓励，激励并授权给别人的话，其结果会令你惊喜的。
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3. “You astound me!” Mrs. Willoughby said, pressing her clasped hands to her lips, a gesture she normally bestowed upon seniors who were making their final appearance in the spring choral concert.
“你真是令我大吃一惊啊！” 威洛比太太说道，双手紧紧的按在嘴唇上——这是她通常在毕业班学生参加春季合唱音乐会上最后献唱时才会做出的姿势。
- astound (v.) mid-15c., from Middle English astouned, astoned (c. 1300), past participle of astonen, astonien "to stun" (see astonish), with more of the original sense of Vulgar Latin *extonare. The unusual form is perhaps because the past participle was so much more common it came to be taken for the infinitive, or/and by the same pattern which produced round (v.) from round (adj.), or by the intrusion of an unetymological -d as in sound (n.1). Related: Astounded; astounding.
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