aghast是什么意思

双语例句

(1)Mary was aghast when the strange man suddenly broke into her house.

当那个陌生人突然闯进玛丽的房子时，她吓呆了。

(2)His aghast eyes revealed his mood at this moment.

他惊恐的眼神透露出了他此时的心情。

(3)He stared at the woman who had no ears in an aghast look.

他惊恐地看着眼前这个没有耳朵的女人。

(4)Everyone was aghast at the verdict.

所有人都对判决感到震惊

(5)While she watched, aghast, his eyes glazed over as his life flowed away.

她惊骇地看着，他的眼睛随着他的生命逐渐消失而变得呆滞无神。

(6)Erica looked at him aghast.

埃丽卡惊恐地望着他。

(7)He stood aghast at the sight of so much blood.

他看见这么多血，吓得目瞪口呆。

(8)Nibs exclaimed, aghast at such insubordination, whereupon Peter went sternly toward the young lady's chamber.

尼布斯惊叫，对如此不服从感到惊讶，于是，彼得朝年轻小姐的房间严肃地走去。

(9)We would think that Milton's contemporaries might be aghast that such a sympathetic portrait of Satan could be used at the beginning of the poem.

我们会认为，与弥尔顿的同时代人，可能会被这首诗的开头所使用的对撒旦同情的描述所震惊。

同义词

adj. 吓呆的，惊骇的；吃惊的

释义

adj.

filled with horror or shock

惊呆的

when the news came out they were aghast.

消息传出，他们惊呆了。

词源

"late Middle English： past participle of the obsolete verb agast, gast ‘frighten'， from Old English gæsten． The spelling with gh （originally Scots） became general by about 1700， probably influenced by GHOST; compare with GHASTLY．"