英语单词 | wow |
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英美音标 | 英 [waʊ] 美 [waʊ] |
中文释义 | n.巨大的成功 int.哇! vt.使热烈赞赏 |
英语例句 | (1) Wow! What a beautiful lake! (2) Wow, what a big fish! (3) Wow, this is a bright kid! He must be a genius! (4) The new musical wowed them on Broadway. |
中文例句 | (1) 哇!多美的湖啊! (2) 哇,好大的鱼呀! (3) 哇!这孩子真聪明!一定是天才! (4) 那出新的歌舞喜剧在百老汇众口交赞。 |
vocabulary简明 | When you wow your teacher, you get him really excited about your three paragraph essay. To wow is to impress. |
vocabulary扩展 | If you imagine saying, "Wow!" after tasting your friend's coconut cupcakes, you'll understand exactly what the verb wow means. When the cupcakes make you exclaim like that, they wow you. A wonderful movie will wow you, and your dad's juggling act might also wow you. The word wow is Scottish in origin, an amazed interjection from the 1500's. The verb form came along in American slang much later, in the 1920's. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [EXCLAM 感叹语](表示赞叹、非常吃惊或喜悦)哇,呀 You can say 'wow' when you are very impressed, surprised, or pleased. [feelings] [INFORMAL 非正式]
2 [VERB 动词]使叫绝;博得…的称赞 You say that someone wows people when they give an impressive performance and fill people with enthusiasm and admiration. [V n] [INFORMAL 非正式]
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