英语单词 | stunning |
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英美音标 | ['stʌni] |
中文释义 | adj.足以使人晕倒的,极好的 |
vocab简明 | Someone who is strikingly beautiful can be described as stunning. There's something magical about weddings that makes every bride look stunning. |
vocab扩展 | The adjective stunning also means causing astonishment, shock, or disbelief. If your basketball team suffers a stunning defeat, it comes at the hands of a rival team you were positive you would beat. Stunning is rooted in the Old French verb estoner, meaning to stun or shock, and it was used in the 1800s as a synonym for excellent. It's still used this way, particularly when something is really impressive, like the school mime troupe's stunning performance. |
真题原句 | Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running. It’s a stunning move. |
柯林斯星级 | ★★☆☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]极有魅力的;给人以深刻印象的;绝妙的 A stunning person or thing is extremely beautiful or impressive. [usu ADJ n]
stunningly
2 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]令人惊奇万分的;令人震惊的;极不寻常的 A stunning event is extremely unusual or unexpected. [usu ADJ n]
stunningly
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来源 | 2012.2 |
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