| 正面 | 3745.enthusiasm 英 [ɪn'θjuːzɪæz(ə)m; en-]美 [ɪn'θuzɪæzəm]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. vit- "life" + -amin (原为-amine, 由于后来发现其中没有氨基酸，顾将后面的字母e去掉了，其实作为物质的代称，现在加不加字母e都没什么关系啦)。2. 该词有两种译名，一种是意译，即“维生素”，表示维持生命的元素，顾简称为维生素；另一种是音译，即“维他命”，根据发音直译过来的，很好理解。n. 热心，热忱，热情 例句： 1. She radiates an infectious enthusiasm for everything she does.她做任何事情都充满一种极富感染力的热情。 enthusiasm 热情，热忱来自enthuse，热情。 enthusiasmenthusiasm: [17] Enthusiasm has had a chequered semantic history. Like giddiness, it meant originally ‘state of being inspired by a god’. It comes ultimately from Greek énthous or éntheos ‘possessed, inspired’, a compound formed from the prefix en- ‘in’ and theós ‘god’ (as in English theology). From this in turn was derived the verb enthousiázein ‘be inspired’ and the noun enthousiasmós, which passed into English via Latin or French, still with the sense ‘divine inspiration’ (‘Doth he think they knew it by enthusiasm or revelation from heaven?’ Richard Baxter, Infants’ church membership and baptism 1651).In the stern climate of Puritanism, however, divine inspiration was not something to be encouraged, and as the 17th century progressed enthusiasm took on derogatory connotations of ‘excessive religious emotion’. The modern approbatory meaning, ‘eagerness’, had its beginnings at the start of the 18th century, and by the early 19th century had ousted the deprecatory sense from leading place.=> theologyenthusiasm (n.)c. 1600, from Middle French enthousiasme (16c.) and directly from Late Latin enthusiasmus, from Greek enthousiasmos "divine inspiration, enthusiasm (produced by certain kinds of music, etc.)," from enthousiazein "be inspired or possessed by a god, be rapt, be in ecstasy," from entheos "divinely inspired, possessed by a god," from en "in" (see en- (2)) + theos "god" (see theo-). Acquired a derogatory sense of "excessive religious emotion through the conceit of special revelation from God" (1650s) under the Puritans; generalized meaning "fervor, zeal" (the main modern sense) is first recorded 1716." |