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astonished

/uh-ston-ish/US // əˈstɒn ɪʃ //UK // (əˈstɒnɪʃ) //

诧异,惊讶的,惊讶,惊讶不已

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to fill with sudden and overpowering surprise or wonder; amaze: Her easy humor and keen intellect astonished me.

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Examples

  • He turns astonished tourist, as his camera sweeps up to the dome.

  • Earl Stoddard, the county’s head of emergency management — who said he was “astonished” by the allocation — urged state officials to give the county of 1 million residents more doses.

  • I’ve been lucky enough to taste hoshigaki in Japan, and as a new resident of Los Angeles, I am still astonished by the abundant persimmons growing freely in people’s backyards.

  • Microbial ecologists were astonished to find cells inside basalt far under the ocean floor that have survived for perhaps more than 100 million years.

  • It’s worth putting this in context because it’s as astonishing a stat as any women’s basketball player has put up in recent memory.

  • I was astonished by his work and very grateful that fate had thrown us together.

  • That such a local issue had become national, even international, in scope astonished me.

  • I was astonished at some of the figures you came up with, specifically about Jewish immigrants.

  • Her indifference astonished Clark, who has been a cop for 29 years.

  • People were astonished by his impassioned speeches at separatist meetings.

  • Louis was not less astonished at this charge, than the Empress had been at the communication which aroused it.

  • No; there I stood, half-astonished, half-abashed while the Marquise continued on her knees and made her silent orisons.

  • He stared at his men, astonished and impatient at this strange disobedience.

  • The eye admireth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the heart is astonished at the shower thereof.

  • I am always astonished, amazed and delighted afresh, and even as I listen I can hardly believe that the man can play so!

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