rapture

英 ['r?pt??] 美['r?pt??]

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復數:?raptures;

1. 即心神被自己入迷的東西、事物給吸引住了、給吸引去了、也就是心神被抓住了，自然也就會狂喜、心醉神迷。

rapture 狂喜

來自 rapt,全神貫注的，-ure,名詞后綴。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。

2. What joy, what rapture, what glory to see him again!: 再見到他是多么高興、多么歡欣、多么美妙的事啊！