gloat
英 [gləʊt]
美 [ɡlot]
- vi. 幸災樂禍；心滿意足地注視
- n. 幸災樂禍；貪婪的盯視；洋洋得意
助記提示
1. gl- "光" + oat => 看到燕麥兩眼就放光，兩眼放光地看著燕麥，因為很餓很想吃。
2. glow + at => *glowat => gloat => 兩眼放光地看著某事物，這種看肯定是“貪婪地看、很高興的那種看，不然就不會兩眼放光了”。
中文詞源
gloat 幸災樂禍，沾沾自喜詞源同glib, 歡喜，幸災樂禍。
英文詞源
- gloat (v.)
- 1570s, "to look at furtively," probably a variant of earlier glout "to gaze attentively, stare, scowl, look glum, pout" (mid-15c.), from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse glotta "to grin, smile scornfully and show the teeth," Swedish dialectal glotta "to peep;" or from Middle High German glotzen "to stare, gape," from the Germanic group of *gl- words that also includes glower. Sense of "to look at with malicious satisfaction, ponder with pleasure something that satisfies an evil passion" first recorded 1748. Johnson didn't recognize the word, and OED writes that it was probably "taken up in the 16th c. from some dialect." Related: Gloated; gloating. As a noun, from 1640s with sense of "side-glance;" 1899 as "act of gloating."
Whosoever attempteth anything for the publike ... the same setteth himselfe upon a stage to be glouted upon by every evil eye. [translators' "note to the reader" in the 1611 King James Bible]
雙語例句
- 1. This is nothing to gloat about.
- 這沒什麽好幸災樂禍的。
來自辭典例句
- 2. I'm sure he'll have a good gloat over this.
- 我肯定他會為此幸災樂禍.
來自辭典例句
- 3. It's nothing to gloat about.
- 沒有什麽可幸災樂禍的.
來自辭典例句
- 4. Don't you think it's a little unkind to gloat over your competitor's failure?
- 你難道不認為對你對手的失敗幸災樂禍是有點不近人情 嗎 ?
來自辭典例句
- 5. They like to win and then they like to gloat.
- 他們喜歡贏,然後性災樂禍一番.
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