glad

英 [gl?d] 美[ɡl?d]

反義詞

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第三人稱單數(shù):?glads;過去式:?gladded;過去分詞:?gladded;現(xiàn)在分詞:?gladding;比較級(jí):?gladder;最高級(jí):?gladdest;

glad 高興的

來(lái)自PIE*ghel, 照耀，發(fā)光，詞源同glass, gold. 引申義容光滿面的，高興的。

glad: glad: [OE] The original meaning of Old English gl?d was ‘bright, shining’. It went back to a prehistoric Germanic *glathaz, which was related to Latin glaber ‘smooth, bald’ (source of English glabrous [17] and Old Slavic gladuku ‘smooth’). ‘Happy’ is a secondary semantic development, which evidently took place before the various Germanic dialects went their own way, for it is shared by Swedish and Danish glad (the sense ‘smooth’, also an extension of ‘bright, shining’, is preserved in German glatt).
=> glabrous
glad (adj.): Old English gl?d "bright, shining, gleaming; joyous; pleasant, gracious" (also as a noun, "joy, gladness"), from Proto-Germanic *glada- (cognates: Old Norse glaer "smooth, bright, glad," Danish glad "glad, joyful," Old Saxon gladmod, in which the element means "glad," Old Frisian gled "smooth," Dutch glad "slippery," German glatt "smooth"), from PIE *ghel- (2) "to shine," with derivatives referring to bright materials and gold (see glass). The notion is of being radiant with joy; the modern sense "feeling pleasure or satisfaction" is much weakened. Slang glad rags "one's best clothes" first recorded 1902.

3. I can't tell you how glad I was to leave that place.: 我無(wú)法形容自己離開那個(gè)地方心里有多高興。

4. She was feeling tired and was glad to lean against him.: 她正感到有些疲倦，因此很高興可以靠在他身上。