rapture
rapture 英 ['ræptʃə] 美 ['ræptʃɚ]
n. 兴高采烈 vt. 使…狂喜
名词复数:raptures
- Rapture is a feeling of emotional ecstasy so magical it's almost as if you've been transported to some other world.
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- n. 兴高采烈
- vt. 使…狂喜
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1. Ah, the joy, the incomparable rapture of that time!
啊，那种快乐，那次无与伦比、销魂夺魄的享受！
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2. "The very thing, " he agreed, sharing my rapture, and gave orders for our water supply to be drawn from that spring.
“这正是我们想要的东西。” 他同意了，和我一道欢天喜地，并且吩咐以后就从那里取水。
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3. But to what did they owe the convulsion and rapture of their transport?
但这令他们抽风着迷的挪移，他们靠的是什么？
- rapture (n.) c. 1600, "act of carrying off," from Middle French rapture, from Medieval Latin raptura "seizure, rape, kidnapping," from Latin raptus "a carrying off, abduction, snatching away; rape" (see rapt). Earliest attested use in English is of women and in 17c. it sometimes meant rape (v.), which word is a cognate of this. Sense of "spiritual ecstasy, state of mental transport" first recorded c. 1600 (raptures).
- rapture (v.) 1630s, from rapture (n.). Related: Raptured; rapturing.
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