aflutter

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /əˈflʌt.ə/    美 /əˈflʌt.ɚ/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Fluttering.
    — I can hear / Your heart a-flutter over the snow-hills;
  2. Filled or covered (with something that flutters).
    — The day being warm and sultry, the balcony was all aflutter with the feather fans of the ladies of the family and their attendants,
  3. In a state of tremulous excitement, anticipation or confusion.
    — […] she rose, all a-flutter within, it is true, but with a face as nearly sedate as the inborn witchery of her eyes would allow.

词形变化

more aflutter comparative most aflutter superlative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der.
English a-
English flutter-
English aflutter
From a- + flutter-.
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