awe

英 [??] 美[?]

反義詞

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復(fù)數(shù):?awes;第三人稱單數(shù):?awes;過去式:?awed;過去分詞:?awed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?awing;形容詞:?awed;

awe 敬畏

來自PIE *agh, 害怕。此處詞義褒義化。詞源同ail, ugly.

awe: awe: [13] Old English had the word ege, meaning ‘a(chǎn)we’, but modern English awe is a Scandinavian borrowing; the related Old Norse agi steadily infiltrated the language from the northeast southwards during the Middle Ages. Agi came, like ege, from a hypothetical Germanic form *agon, which in turn goes back to an Indo-European base *agh- (whence also Greek ákhos ‘pain’). The guttural g sound of the 13th-century English word (technically a voiced velar spirant) was changed to w during the Middle English period. This was a general change, but it is not always reflected in spelling – as in owe and ought, for instance, which were originally the same word.
awe (n.): c. 1300, aue, "fear, terror, great reverence," earlier aghe, c. 1200, from a Scandinavian source, such as Old Norse agi "fright;" from Proto-Germanic *agiz- (cognates: Old English ege "fear," Old High German agiso "fright, terror," Gothic agis "fear, anguish"), from PIE *agh-es- (cognates: Greek akhos "pain, grief"), from root *agh- "to be depressed, be afraid" (see ail). Current sense of "dread mixed with admiration or veneration" is due to biblical use with reference to the Supreme Being. To stand in awe (early 15c.) originally was simply to stand awe. Awe-inspiring is recorded from 1814.
Al engelond of him stod awe.
["The Lay of Havelok the Dane," c. 1300]
awe (v.): c. 1300, from awe (n.); Old English had egan (v.). Related: Awed; awing.

1. The higher we climbed, the more awe-inspiring the scenery became.: 我們爬得越高，風(fēng)景越是讓人嘆絕。