enthusiasm
enthusiasm 英 [ɪnˈθju:ziæzəm] 美 [ɪnˈθuziæzəm]
n. 热心，热忱，热情
名词复数:enthusiasms
- You might show enthusiasm if you find out that all the shoes are on sale for 70 percent off today. The word enthusiasm indicates intense excitement.
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- n. 热心，热忱，热情
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1. He commended them for their enthusiasm.
他称赞他们的热情。
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2. She showed simulated enthusiasm towards us.
她向我们表示了虚假的热情。
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3. Father discourage the expression of enthusiasm.
父亲不准有热情的表示。
- enthusiasm (n.) c. 1600, from Middle French enthousiasme (16c.) and directly from Late Latin enthusiasmus, from Greek enthousiasmos "divine inspiration, enthusiasm (produced by certain kinds of music, etc.)," from enthousiazein "be inspired or possessed by a god, be rapt, be in ecstasy," from entheos "divinely inspired, possessed by a god," from en "in" (see en- (2)) + theos "god" (from PIE root *dhes-, forming words for religious concepts). It acquired a derogatory sense of "excessive religious emotion through the conceit of special revelation from God" (1650s) under the Puritans; generalized meaning "fervor, zeal" (the main modern sense) is first recorded 1716.
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