rapt
rapt 英 [ræpt] 美 [ræpt]
adj. 全神贯注的；入迷的
- To be rapt is to be carried away, caught up, or otherwise engrossed in something. If a performer is really good or particularly mesmerizing, the audience will be totally rapt.
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- adj. 全神贯注的；入迷的
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1. In fact, he was rapt, glassy-eyed, having at last some profound insight as to how to think about gravity.
事实上，他全神贯注凝视着，最后像是对怎么 理解地心引力有什么深刻看法似的。
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2. There, I would explain why the dinosaurs disappeared and how mankind evolved from our primitive forebears. She seemed rapt.
在哪里，我给她讲述为什么恐龙会灭绝和人类是如何从原始祖先进化来的，她似乎听的全神贯注。
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3. No wonder she held people in rapt attention at dinner parties, in line at the market, at bus stops.
难怪晚餐聚会，超市排队中，汽车站，她总是吸引人们全神贯注的注意力。
- rapt (adj.) late 14c., "carried away in an ecstatic trance," from Latin raptus, past participle of rapere "seize, carry off" (see rape (v.)). A figurative sense, the notion is of "carried up into Heaven (bodily or in a dream)," as in a saint's vision. Latin literal sense of "carried away" was in English from 1550s. In 15c.-17c. the word also sometimes could mean "raped." Sense of "engrossed" first recorded c. 1500. As a past-participle adjective, in English it spawned the back-formed verb rap "to affect with rapture," which was common c. 1600-1750.
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