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Gloat Win People Staring Pleasure Gləut V.心满意足 Express

英语单词 gloat
英美音标 [gləut]
中文释义 v.心满意足
vocabulary简明 If you gloat, you express great satisfaction at the misfortune of others. If your team scores a big win, it would be better not to gloat. Be happy for your win, but don't laugh at their loss.
vocabulary扩展 Gloat seems have come from a Germanic word meaning "to stare." Somehow people may have gotten the sense that whoever was doing the staring was also taking a deep and unwholesome pleasure in whatever he or she was seeing. Think about people staring and pointing and laughing. Sometimes you gloat when someone has rejected the help you have offered. If your little sister won't listen to your advice on how to improve her essay and then comes home with a bad grade, it will be very hard not to gloat and say "I told you so."
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柯林斯解释
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[VERB 动词]洋洋得意;幸灾乐祸 If someone is gloating, they are showing pleasure at their own success or at other people's failure in an arrogant and unpleasant way.
  [V over/about n]
  [Also V]
  [disapproval]
  • Anti-abortionists are gloating over the court's decision...

    法庭的判决让反堕胎主义者非常得意。

  • This is nothing to gloat about.

    这没什么好幸灾乐祸的。

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