| 正面 | 13204.astound 英 [ə'staʊnd]美 [ə'staʊnd]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. ex- => es- => as- "out" + -tound (ton-) "thunder".2. 这里的 as- "out" 取引申义，表示：离开、脱离正常的状态或情绪或表情。3. 字面含义：thunder sb out. => leave someone thunderstruck.4. 或者：out: 出去、离开、远离。=> 不管。=> 听任、让、使…处于(某种状态)(leave)。vt. 使惊骇；使震惊 例句： 1. If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.如果把我们能做到的都做了，最终连我们自己都会被吓到。 astound 吃惊as来自前缀ex- 变体，此处表强调。词根ton, 雷，拟声词，同thunder. 指如被雷击。缀生字母d, 同sound. astoundastound: [17] Astound, astonish, and stun all come ultimately from the same origin: a Vulgar Latin verb *extonāre, which literally meant something like ‘leave someone thunderstruck’ (it was formed from the Latin verb tonāre ‘thunder’). This became Old French estoner, which had three offshoots in English: it was borrowed into Middle English in the 13th century as astone or astun, and immediately lost its initial a, producing a form stun; then in the 15th century, in Scotland originally, it had the suffix -ish grafted on to it, producing astonish; and finally in the 17th century its past participle, astoned or, as it was also spelled, astound, formed the basis of a new verb.=> astonish, stunastound (v.)mid-15c., from Middle English astouned, astoned (c. 1300), past participle of astonen, astonien "to stun" (see astonish), with more of the original sense of Vulgar Latin *extonare. Related: Astounded; astounding." |