【delight音标】 英[dɪˈlaɪt] 美[dɪˈlaɪt]
【单词释义】 delight是什么意思:
n.[U]快乐,高兴;[C]使人高兴的东西或人
vt.使高兴,使欣喜
vi.感到高兴[快乐]
[单词分级] 高考英语词汇
[单词复数] delights [第三人称单数] delights
[单词现在分词] delighting
[单词过去式] delighted
[单词过去分词] delighted
【关联词/派生词】
delighted adj.高兴的
delightfully adv. 欣然地;快乐地;愉快地
delightful adj. 令人愉快的;宜人的
delightedly adv. 高兴地;欣喜地
【delight形近词/近似词】
limelight n. [U] 公众注意的中心
blight n.枯萎病;坏因素;毁坏;衰退 v.(使)枯萎;损害;妨害
slight adj.微小的;细小的 n.轻蔑,忽视,冷落 vt.轻蔑,忽视,怠慢
alight vi.(从车上)下来;飞落;点燃 adj.点亮的;烧着的
plight n.苦难,困境;誓约 vt.保证,约定
flight n.(物体的)飞行;航班;楼梯的一段
【常用短语】
take delight in 以…为乐;喜欢;爱好
【近义词解析】
◇ 愉快,快乐
delight (n. 快乐,高兴):指某事物或某人带来的欣喜、愉悦之感,语气强于 pleasure。
enjoyment (n. 愉快,乐趣):指客观事物给人带来的乐趣,语气较轻。
joy (n. 愉快,喜悦):指比较强烈的欢乐情绪,语气弱于 rapture 而强于 pleasure。
pleasure (n. 愉快,快乐):普通用词,指某种事物带来的愉悦感或满足感。
rapture ([六级/考研]n. [文]狂喜):语气最强,指欢天喜地、欣喜若狂。
【单词例句】
◇ Jane is a housewife, but delighted to work as an amateur journalist.
简是一名家庭主妇,但却非常乐意做一名业余记者。
◇ He faxed a letter to me in English yesterday. To my delight, he no longer made any tense error. And his description roughly clarified my questions about the UK--its currency, its administration, the institution which divides it into four provinces, and the historical conflicts and quarrels when Southern Ireland broke away from the UK.
他昨天传真了一封英文信给我,让我高兴的是,他再也不犯时态错误了,而且他的描述也粗略地向我阐明了关于英国的一些问题——它的货币啦,行政管理啦,把它分成四个行政区的制度啦,还有在南爱尔兰脱离联合王国时发生的一些历史上的冲突和争拗。
---- Sightseeing in the United Kingdom
◇ And accordingly he praised the stuff he could not see, and declared that he was delighted with both colors and patterns. "Indeed, please your Imperial Majesty," said he to his sovereign when he returned, "the cloth which the weavers are preparing is extraordinarily magnificent."
因此他就把他完全没有看见的布称赞了一番,同时对他们说,他非常喜欢这些美丽的颜色和巧妙的花纹。“是的,那真是太美了,”他回去对皇帝说。
◇ Frolicking infants, school children playing tag, and adult arm wrestlers are demonstrating strong, trans generational and trans species bonds with the universe of animals - past, present, and future. Young animals, particularly, tumble, chase, run, wrestle, mock, imitate, and laugh(or so it seems) to the point of delighted exhaustion.
雀跃的幼儿,捉迷藏的学童和成年摔跤者展示出人与动物界的有力的跨越世代与物种的永恒的联系 -- 特别是幼兽,它们翻筋斗、追逐、奔跑、扭打、模仿、嬉笑(或者看起来是),直到愉快地精疲力尽。
---- The Origin of Sports
◇ One hot summer day, the boy returned and the tree was delighted. "Come and play with me!" the tree said.
突然,在一个夏日,男孩回到树旁,树很高兴。“来和我玩吧!”树说。
---- A Boy and His Tree