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delight in

/dih-lahyt/US // dɪˈlaɪt //UK // (dɪˈlaɪt) //

乐在其中,乐于接受,喜悦于,喜悦

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: She takes great delight in her job.
    • : something that gives great pleasure: The dance was a delight to see.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to give great pleasure, satisfaction, or enjoyment to; please highly: The show delighted everyone.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to have great pleasure; take pleasure: She delights in going for long walks in the country.

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Examples

  • Loaded with fast-drying archival ink, the Sakura’s Pigma Micron fineliners are simply a delight to work with.

  • As the biggest snowstorm in the region in two years, it brought delight to snow lovers and proved not to be a huge inconvenience.

  • To me, love for food should be about the appreciation of subtlety, not a delight in savagery.

  • Particularly during the colder months, I love employing this method to turn tough cuts of meat into silken morsels of pure delight.

  • Despite that it leans a bit toward wordiness and could have used maybe one less caper, “The Big Tow” is a true delight – but not for the reasons you might think.

  • His surprise marriage to theater director Sophie Hunter may have broken hearts, but the squeals of delight were even louder.

  • Then they sat down at the dinner table and ate with delight.

  • One gets the impression that God would take great delight in letting them go.

  • But I also want jazz to be loved and enjoyed, to serve as a source of enchantment and delight.

  • Our brains and bodies delight in the sweet stuff, in the same way we might respond to a drug, causing us to want more and more.

  • He held it, but it was without pressure; without recognizance of the delight with which he once grasped it.

  • Terror drives you on; fate coerces you; you can't help yourself, and my delight is to make the plunge terrible.

  • Louis listened with pleasure, and dwelt with delight on the interesting Princess and her son.

  • It was her delight to mingle politics and chivalric devotion, in their long conferences.

  • The morning we started was one of those perfect autumnal days when it is a delight simply to live.