awe

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɔː/|/oː/    美 /oː/|/ɔ/|/ɑ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A feeling of fear and reverence. uncountable,usually
    — Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
  2. A bucket (blade) attached to water wheels. obsolete
  3. A feeling of amazement. uncountable,usually
    — For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must each have been as overcome by awe as was I. All about us was a flora and fauna as strange and wonderful to us as might have been those upon a distant planet had we suddenly been miraculously transported through ether to an unknown world.
  4. Power to inspire awe. archaic,uncountable,usually
动词 v.
  1. To inspire fear and reverence in. transitive
    — That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.
  2. To control by inspiring dread. transitive
    — While a sense of outrage is the only rational response to atrocity, if that outrage is maintained at too high a level over too long a time it can generate feelings of impotence, as we permit ourselves to be awed by this irrational act of violence.

词形变化

awes plural awes present,singular,third-person awing participle,present aweing participle,present awed participle,past awed past awes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
awebound aweful awe-inspiring aweless awesome awestricken awestrike awestruck awe walk awful inawe overawe shock and awe underawe awed

词源

词源 1
From Middle English aw, awe, agh, awȝe, borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“terror, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to be upset, afraid”). Displaced native Middle English eye, eyȝe, ayȝe, eȝȝe, from Old English ege, æge (“fear, terror, dread”), from the same Proto-Germanic root.
词源 2
Etymology tree
French auvebor.
English awe
Borrowed from French auve.
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