astonish

🇬🇧/əˈstɒnɪʃ/ 🇺🇸/əˈstɑːnɪʃ/📚 12905 149 1四级考研托福高考
If something or someone astonishes you, they surprise you very much. 使十分惊讶

verb [vi. 不及物动词]使吃惊,使惊讶

My news will astonish you.
我的消息会令你十分惊讶。

astonish 出现在下面的课文中
Lesson 46 Expensive and uncomfortable astonish 动词: 使惊讶
a(一个) + ston(看作stone, 石头) + ish(使) → 一石激起千层浪, 怎不叫人惊讶? → 使大吃一惊
单词造句:
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Thunderstruck shows up in English about 100 years after astonish. Thunderstruck 这个词在 astonish 之后大约100年才出现在英语当中。
As for the bushels of sketches and studies which Millet produced in the last six weeks, well, it would astonish you to know the figure we sell them at nowadays. 至于米勒在过去六个星期里创作的大量的速写和习作,嗯,如果你知道我们现在销售它们的价格,你会大吃一惊的。

使惊讶

如果一个动词跟人的情绪有关,则它的宾语是人,其形容词有两个:

令人 –ing;感到 -ed astonishing 

adj. 令人惊讶 ; astonished adj. 感到惊讶的

  • I am surprised. → astonished → astounded → shocked 惊讶程度递增