astound

• vt. 使驚駭；使震驚

as來自前綴ex- 變體，此處表強調。詞根ton, 雷，擬聲詞，同thunder. 指如被雷擊。綴生字母d, 同sound.

astound

astound: [17] Astound, astonish, and stun all come ultimately from the same origin: a Vulgar Latin verb *extonāre, which literally meant something like ‘leave someone thunderstruck’ (it was formed from the Latin verb tonāre ‘thunder’). This became Old French estoner, which had three offshoots in English: it was borrowed into Middle English in the 13th century as astone or astun, and immediately lost its initial a, producing a form stun; then in the 15th century, in Scotland originally, it had the suffix -ish grafted on to it, producing astonish; and finally in the 17th century its past participle, astoned or, as it was also spelled, astound, formed the basis of a new verb.
=> astonish, stun

astound (v.)

mid-15c., from Middle English astouned, astoned (c. 1300), past participle of astonen, astonien "to stun" (see astonish), with more of the original sense of Vulgar Latin *extonare. Related: Astounded; astounding.

1. If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

如果把我們能做到的都做了，最終連我們自己都會被嚇到。

來自金山詞霸 每日一句

2. Their dark humor never failed to astound him.

他們的黑色幽默總能讓他咋舌。

來自柯林斯例句

3. He used to astound his friends with feats of physical endurance.

過去，他表現出來的驚人耐力常讓朋友們大吃一驚。

來自辭典例句

4. A repertoire of tricks will astound the esteemed public.

全部節目將使尊敬的觀眾驚心動魄.

來自辭典例句

5. His practical grasp of affairs and his energy still astound me.

他對事物的實際掌握和他充沛的精力實在使我驚異.

來自辭典例句