Front | ardent |
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Pron | ['ɑːrdnt] |
Back | 【ardent】 adj.极热心的,热情的 After reading about the lives of several great Americans, John became an ardent student of American history. 读了有关几个美国伟人的生平事绩之后,约翰成为一个对美国历史很热心的学生。 |
Vocab | ardentcharacterized by intense emotion
If you are ardent, you are passionate about something. A pop star's ardent admirers might go so crazy at his concert that they faint from excitement. Ardent is most often used to modify words like supporter, fan, advocate, admirer, and defender — but also opponent. Although you can either ardently support or oppose something, support is by far the more common use. The word literally means "burning" or "glowing" — it's from Latin ardere, "to burn." In poetic use, the word is sometimes used to mean "glowing," as Alexander Pope did in his 1718 translation of Homer's Iliad: "From rank to rank she darts her ardent eyes." All forms of 'ardent' will appear on average once every 333 pages. ardent ardently |
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