
英:/'ˈstjuːpɪfaɪɪŋ/ 美:/'ˈstuːpɪfaɪɪŋ/
GRE
adj. 使人目瞪口呆的;让人昏沉的
v. 使发呆;使失去知觉(stupefy的ing形式)
The great fresh open, after the stupefying warmth indoors, made them behave like wild things .
她们在室内时,温暖使她们麻木了,如今来到广阔无垠、空气新鲜的旷野,她们的行动简直象野物了。
They've done an enormous amount of number-crunching with stupefying amounts of detail, he said.
“他们已经做了大量的数据统计工作而且还有大量的详细信息,”他说。
When marsh tea is abloom, air is permeated with stupefying odor of this medical and poisonous plant.
当沼泽茶叶绽开,空气中充满了很多药草和有毒植物的气味。
Never have the stock prices, which are flashed in green on the electronic tapes overhead, surged, dipped and surged again with such stupefying speed.
股票价格也从没有像这样,以惊人的速度用绿色光芒的数字在电子磁带上这样上涨、波动、下跌,然后再次波动。
In his review, Vallini wrote that for all of the stupefying, enchanting technology in the film, it gets bogged down by a spiritualism linked to the worship of nature.
他说,电影中所有“醉人的,令人迷幻的科技”,使人深深陷入对大自然的唯心崇拜中。
“stupefying”是形容词,源于动词“stupefy”,意为“使震惊、使茫然或使麻木”,常用于描述事物令人极度惊讶、困惑甚至暂时失去思考能力的特性。根据牛津词典的解释,该词强调“因冲击性过强而导致的精神或感官迟钝”。例如剑桥词典提供的例句:“The stupefying heat made it impossible to work outdoors”(令人昏聩的酷热使户外工作无法进行)。
在具体使用中,该词可涵盖两类语境:
词源方面,梅里亚姆-韦伯斯特词典指出,“stupefy”源自拉丁语“stupere”(意为“目瞪口呆”)和“facere”(意为“使成为”),最早于15世纪进入英语。现代用法中,该词常带有负面色彩,暗示超出承受范围的极端性,需根据上下文判断具体是中性描述还是批判性表达。
"Stupefying" 的详细解释如下:
如需更多例句或搭配,可参考权威词典(如爱词霸、海词词典)。
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