小词详解 | exult
exult 英 [ɪɡˈzʌlt] 美 [ɪɡˈzʌlt]
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外刊例句
That pithy motto was coined by Leo Durocher, a baseball manager noted for exulting at injuring his opponents and for cheating his players at cards.
这句简练的格言出自利奥·迪罗谢,这位棒球队经理以伤害对手和在牌局上对自己的球员出千为乐,由此出名。
——《经济学人》I tell myself it is not wrong to exult in the beauties that remain.
我告诉自己,为留下来的美丽而欢欣鼓舞并没有错。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[verb] feel or show triumphant elation or jubilation
[动词] 感到或表现出得意洋洋的喜悦或欢腾
深入解读
Exult 是一个与小站之前推送过的 exalt 十分形似的单词。该词源自拉丁语 exsilire (向上跳),16世纪60年代经法语 exulter 进入英语,原本也是用来表示“跃起、雀跃”。
人们之所以雀跃,往往是因为发生了某件十分令人高兴或兴奋的事情。因此从这个概念出发,等到了16世纪90年代后, exult 开始发展出现在的主要含义指“兴高采烈、欢欣鼓舞、喜形于色”,常用搭配 exult at/in sth 作正式用语使用,主要指对胜利、成功等喜事感到或表现出得意洋洋的喜悦或欢腾,比如:
他向后一靠,为自己计划成功而得意扬扬。
He leaned back, exulting at the success of his plan.她在36岁时达到了事业的巅峰。那时,她好像一副大权在握,洋洋得意的样子。
At 36, she'd reached the apex of her career. At that time, she seemed to exult in her power.
名著用例
They bear hunger, cold, fatigue, and all the miseries of life, without shrinking; danger only calls forth their fortitude; they even exult in calamity; but contempt is what they cannot bear.
在饥饿、酷冷和劳累等所有生活的艰难面前,他们能忍受,决不退缩;危险反而能激发他们的毅力;面对灾难,他们甚至依然能谈笑风生。但他们忍受不了鄙视。
出自英国剧作家奥利弗·戈德史密斯(Oliver Goldsmith)创作的虚构书信集《世界公民:旅居伦敦的中国哲学家致他东方友人的信》(The Citizen of the World, or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the East)。
同近义词
rejoice: feel or show great joy or delight
triumph: rejoice or exult at a victory or success
crow: (of a person) make a sound expressing a feeling of happiness or triumph
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