awestruck
awestruck 英 [ˈɔ:strʌk] 美 [ˈɔːstrʌk]
adj. 敬畏的；惊奇不已的（等于awestricken）
名词复数:awestrucks
- To be awestruck is to be full of complete wonder, amazement, or dread for something. Swimming with a humpback whale or being near a tornado would leave most people awestruck. When you're awestruck, you're amazed.
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- adj. 敬畏的；惊奇不已的（等于awestricken）
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1. Antarctica left me awestruck by its majesty and beauty with a feeling that I had been to a magical place.
南极洲以它的雄伟和美丽，使我肃然起敬， 感到我已经到了一个神秘莫测的地方。
- awestruck (adj.) also awestruck, "overwhelmed by reverential fear," 1630s (Milton), from awe (n.) + struck (see strike (v.)). Perhaps coined to cut a path between the contemporary senses of awesome ("reverential") and awful ("causing dread"). Awe-strike (v.) is not recorded until much later (1832), has always been rare, and is perhaps a back-formation.
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