rapture

• n. 興高采烈
• vt. 使…狂喜

來自 rapt,全神貫注的，-ure,名詞後綴。比喻用法。

rapture

rapture: [17] Rapture is one of a large family of English words that go back ultimately to Latin rapere ‘seize by force’. Its past participle was raptus (source of English rapt [14]), which formed the basis of the medieval Latin noun raptūra ‘seizure’, hence ‘ecstasy’ – whence English rapture. From the same source come rapacious [17], rape ‘violate sexually’, rapid, rapine [15], ravage, ravenous, ravine, ravish, surreptitious, and usurp.
=> rapacious, rape, rapid, ravage, ravenous, ravine, ravish, surreptitious, usurp

rapture (n.)

c. 1600, "act of carrying off," from Middle French rapture, from Medieval Latin raptura "seizure, rape, kidnapping," from Latin raptus "a carrying off, abduction, snatching away; rape" (see rapt). Earliest attested use in English is of women and in 17c. it sometimes meant rape (v.), which word is a cognate of this. Sense of "spiritual ecstasy, state of mental transport" first recorded c. 1600 (raptures).

rapture (v.)

1630s, from rapture (n.). Related: Raptured; rapturing.

1. The film was shown to gasps of rapture at the Democratic Convention.

在民主黨大會上放映的電影使人們十分欣喜。

來自柯林斯例句

2. What joy, what rapture, what glory to see him again!

再見到他是多麽高興、多麽歡欣、多麽美妙的事啊！

來自柯林斯例句

3. I stare in rapture at the ball.

我欣喜若狂地盯著球。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Charles listened with rapture to her singing.

查爾斯興致勃勃地聽她演唱。

來自《權威詞典》

5. She was in the seventh heaven of rapture.

她欣喜若狂.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》