agog

• adj. 興奮的；有強烈興趣的
• adv. 熱切地；渴望地

詞源不祥。

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.

1. The children were all agog to hear the story.

孩子們都渴望著要聽這個故事.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

2. The children were all agog to see their presents.

孩子都興奮地急著要看給他們的禮物.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

3. The city was agog with rumours last night that the two had been executed.

那兩人已被處決的傳言昨晚搞得全城沸沸揚揚。

來自柯林斯例句

4. The prospect of Christmas left the children agog.

對聖誕節的憧憬使得孩子們興奮不已

來自辭典例句

5. All London was agog to see the two " parents " of radium.

倫敦全城都渴望見到這兩位鐳的 “ 父母 ”.

來自辭典例句