- 1使人興奮振奮、令人心情激昂（那種被速度、高處、好消息衝上來的快感）。比 excite 更帶「暢快、活過來」的身體感
To exhilarate someone is to fill them with a rush of excitement and happiness — the kind that lifts you and makes you feel alive. It is stronger and more physical than "please" or "cheer up": think of what fast movement, cold air, height, speed or sudden good news does to you. Riding a along the coast, standing on a mountain top, hearing you got the job — these things exhilarate you.
To exhilarate someone讓一個人exhilarate is to fill them with a rush of excitement and happiness就是讓他們瞬間充滿興奮和快樂 the kind that lifts you那種把你整個人提振起來 and makes you feel alive讓你覺得活著的感覺 It is stronger and more physical than "please" or "cheer up"這比please或cheer up更強烈、更有身體感 think of what fast movement, cold air, height, speed or sudden good news does to you想想快速移動、冷空氣、高處、速度、或突如其來的好消息對你做了什麼 Riding a motorbike along the coast沿著海岸騎摩托車 standing on a mountain top站在山頂上 hearing you got the job聽到你被錄取了 these things exhilarate you這些事都會讓你exhilarate
The word is transitive, so something exhilarates someone; you cannot just "exhilarate" on your own.
The word is transitive這個字是及物動詞 so something exhilarates someone所以是「某件事讓某人exhilarate」 you cannot just "exhilarate" on your own你不能自己單獨「exhilarate」
Honestly, though, the plain verb is not what students will meet most. In real English it lives mostly in its two participle forms: exhilarating (the thing that does it) and exhilarated (how you feel afterwards). Speakers reach for those constantly and for the bare verb only in writing, and even there it sounds a little literary.
Honestly, though不過老實說 the plain verb is not what students will meet most這個原形動詞不是學生最常會遇到的形式 In real English在真實的英文裡 it lives mostly in its two participle forms它多半以兩種分詞形式出現 exhilarating (the thing that does it)exhilarating（那個讓人興奮起來的東西） and exhilarated (how you feel afterwards)和exhilarated（事後你的感覺） Speakers reach for those constantly母語者常常用這兩個 and for the bare verb only in writing原形動詞只會在書面裡出現 and even there it sounds a little literary即使在書面裡也顯得有點文學腔
The feeling is short and sharp — an exhilarating hour, not an exhilarating year.
The feeling is short and sharp這種感覺是短暫而強烈的 an exhilarating hour像exhilarating的一小時 not an exhilarating year而不是exhilarating的一整年
core核心畫面
組成ex- (here an intensifier, 'thoroughly') + Latin hilarare (to make cheerful), from hilaris (cheerful), which came from Greek hilaros (merry). So: to make someone thoroughly cheerful.
同家族的字
- hilarioussame Latin hilaris (cheerful) — but it drifted to mean extremely funny, not exciting
- exhilarationthe noun for the feeling this verb creates
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
exhilarateverb/ɪɡˈzɪləɹeɪt/
- 1
To cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy, to elate.
- Good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates the drinker.
- For the Philiſtian preſcribeth Cures of the minde in Phrenſies, and melancholy Paſsions; and pretendeth alſo to exhibite Medicines to exhilarate the minde, to confirme the courage, to clarifie the wits, to corroborate the memorie, and the like; but the ſcruples and ſuperſtitions of Diet, and other Regiment of the body in the ſect of the Pythagoreans, in the Hereſy of the Manicheas, and in the Lawe of Mahumes doe exceede; […]
- 2
To excite, to thrill.
- [A]lcohol, as all the world knows, or should know, does not nourish, but only stimulates,—exhilarates if you will, but exhilarates as fire exhilarates! Would carbon or any other combustible exhilarate only to burn up, consume, and destroy?
- Harriet became suddenly conscious that every woman in the room was gazing furtively or with frank interest at Wimsey and herself, and the knowledge exhilarated her.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。