ecstasy
英 ['ekstəsɪ]
美 ['ɛkstəsi]
助記提示
1. ec- "out" + st- "place, cause to stand" (hist- [sist-] => st-, 也就是脫落、吸收、簡化、縮略的過程) + -asy (Greek -asis => -asy).
2. => drive out of one's mind. => 靈魂出竅，出神，入迷。=> 狂喜的，出神的，心醉神迷的，使著迷的，陶醉的。
3. 靈魂出竅 => 得意忘形。這兩種情況都是差不多的，都是脫離了本體。
中文詞源
ecstasy 狂喜ec-, 向外。-st, 站。比喻義，偏離原地的，靈魂出竅的。
英文詞源
- ecstasy
- ecstasy: [14] Etymologically, someone who is ecstatic is out of his or her mind. The word comes, via Old French extasie and late Latin extasis, from Greek ékstasis, a derivative of the verb existánai ‘displace, drive out of one’s mind’. This was a compound formed from the prefix ek- ‘out’ and histánai ‘place’ (a distant relative of English stand).
The underlying notion of being ‘beside oneself, in the grip of extreme passion’ survives in modern English in relation to mystic experiences or trances, and also, albeit archaically, in such phrases as ‘an ecstasy of rage’, and the specific sense ‘delight’ developed only comparatively recently, apparently in the 17th century.
=> stand - ecstasy (n.)
- late 14c., extasie "elation," from Old French estaise "ecstasy, rapture," from Late Latin extasis, from Greek ekstasis "entrancement, astonishment, insanity; any displacement or removal from the proper place," in New Testament "a trance," from existanai "displace, put out of place," also "drive out of one's mind" (existanai phrenon), from ek "out" (see ex-) + histanai "to place, cause to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet).
Used by 17c. mystical writers for "a state of rapture that stupefied the body while the soul contemplated divine things," which probably helped the meaning shift to "exalted state of good feeling" (1610s). Slang use for the drug 3,4-methylendioxymethamphetamine dates from 1985. Formerly also spelled ecstasie, extacy, extasy, etc. Attempts to coin a verb to go with it include ecstasy (1620s), ecstatize (1650s), ecstasiate (1823), ecstasize (1830).
雙語例句
- 1. He sat mute, speechless with ecstasy, gazing into the sky.
- 他靜靜坐著，凝視天空，一言不發，心馳神往。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. One wondered what heights of ecstasy the winner reached.
- 人們想知道勝者欣喜若狂到了什麽程度。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. I saw him doing ecstasy in the toilets.
- 我看見他在洗手間吃搖頭丸。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. One tab of Ecstasy costs at least £15.
- 一粒搖頭丸至少賣15英鎊。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. She was in a trancelike state of religious ecstasy.
- 她的宗教狂熱已使她處於恍惚狀態之中.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》