agog
英 [ə'gɒg]
美
- adj. 兴奋的；有强烈兴趣的
- adv. 热切地；渴望地
中文词源
agog 兴奋的
词源不祥。
英英释意
- 1. highly excited
英文词源
- agog
- agog: [15] Agog probably comes from Old French gogue ‘merriment’. It was used in the phrase en gogue, meaning ‘enjoying oneself’ (Randle Cotgrave, in his Dictionarie of the French and English tongues 1611, defines estre en ses gogues as ‘to be frolicke, lustie, lively, wanton, gamesome, all-a-hoit, in a pleasant humour; in a veine of mirth, or in a merrie mood’), and this was rendered into English as agog, with the substitution of the prefix a- (as in asleep) for en and the meaning toned down a bit to ‘eager’.
It is not clear where gogue came from (it may perhaps be imitative of noisy merrymaking), but later in its career it seems to have metamorphosed into go-go, either through reduplication of its first syllable (gogue had two syllables) or through assimilation of the second syllable to the first: hence the French phrase à go-go ‘joyfully’, and hence too English go-go dancers. - agog (adj., adv.)
- "in a state of desire; in a state of imagination; heated with the notion of some enjoyment; longing" [Johnson], c. 1400, perhaps from Old French en gogues "in jest, good humor, joyfulness," from gogue "fun," which is of unknown origin.
实用场景例句
- The children were all agog to hear the story.
- 孩子们都渴望着要听这个故事.
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- The children were all agog to see their presents.
- 孩子都兴奋地急着要看给他们的礼物.
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- The city was agog with rumours last night that the two had been executed.
- 那两人已被处决的传言昨晚搞得全城沸沸扬扬。
柯林斯例句
- The prospect of Christmas left the children agog.
- 对圣诞节的憧憬使得孩子们兴奋不已
辞典例句
- All London was agog to see the two " parents " of radium.
- 伦敦全城都渴望见到这两位镭的 “ 父母 ”.
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- The villagers were agog to hear the news.
- 村民们很兴奋地急着要听那消息.
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- That set the whole town agog with excitement.
- 那件事使全镇的居民兴奋不已.
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- All agog to know what had happened.
- 大家都急于知道发生了什么事情.
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- The villagers were agog for the news.
- 村民们很兴奋地急于听那消息.
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- The ovters were all agog to see their new president.
- 选民们急不可耐,要看他们的新总统.
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- The students were all agog to know their grades.
- 学生们都急着想知道他们的成绩.
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- The children were all agog to see their parents.
- 孩子们都兴奋异常的急于要见父母.
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- How can polymorphous erythemaeffect a radical cure ? Be agog!
- 多形红斑怎么才能根治? 急切!
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- The children were all agog with excitement at the circus.
- 孩子们都兴奋地渴望看马戏.
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- The victory set the whole town agog with excitement.
- 那项胜利使得全镇感到兴奋异常的.
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