英语
其他写法
- swound〈古〉
发音
词源1
源自中古英语 swoune, swone,源自动词。
名词
swoon(复数 swoons)
词源2
源自中古英语 swounen, swonen (“昏厥”), aswoune (“处于昏厥状态”),源自古英语 ġeswōgen (“没有知觉的,死的”),swōgan (“发出声音,肆虐,把……闷死”)的过去分词(对比古英语 āswōgan (“覆盖”)),源自原始日耳曼语 *swōganą (“发出响声”) ← 原始印欧语 *(s)weh₂gʰ-。与低地德语 swogen (“叹息,呻吟”), 荷兰语 zwoegen (“呻吟,大口呼吸”),方言挪威语 søgja (“吹哨,大声谈话”)同源。参见sough。
动词
swoon(第三人称单数简单现在时 swoons,现在分词 swooning,一般过去时及过去分词 swooned) 〈不及物〉
- 〈文〉 昏厥
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 539:
- I threw myself down on the island ground, like a dead man, and drowned in desolation swooned away, nor did I return to my senses till next morning, when the sun rose and revived me.
- 1918,Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Gods of Mars[1],HTML edition,The Gutenberg Project,出版年份2008:
- I dropped the vessel quickly to a lower level. Nor was I a moment too soon. The girl had swooned.
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- 2011年8月2日,“Perry the Platypus”,出自 Phineas and Ferb: Across the 1st and 2nd Dimensions,Walt Disney Records, 演唱:Randy Crenshaw:
- He's got more than just mad skill / He's got a beaver tail and a bill. / And the women swoon whenever they hear him say…
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- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 539:
- 〈引〉 痴迷,迷恋
- 发出带有喜爱/迷恋情感的声音
- The girls swooned at the picture of their favorite actor.
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- 2013 (November 2) Pinky 10 minutes into episode 25 ("The Spy Who Slimed Me") of TV series "Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures" per closed captions
- [Swoons] For sure. He's totally dreamy. Uh--but my heart still belongs to you, Pac-ums.
派生词
- swooningly
拓展阅读
- “swoon”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.