swoon

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英語

其他寫法

• swound (古舊)

發音

• 英語發音：swo͝on, 國際音標^(幫助)：/swuːn/
• 韻部：-uːn

詞源1

源自中古英語 swoune, swone，源自動詞。

名詞

swoon (複數 swoons)

1. 昏厥
   • 1897, 布萊姆·斯托克, 德古拉 Chapter 21

     "I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon. How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with the fresh blood!"

2. 癡迷

詞源2

源自中古英語 swounen, swonen (“昏厥”), aswoune (“處於昏厥狀態”)，源自古英語 ġeswōgen (“沒有知覺的，死的”)，swōgan (“發出聲音，肆虐，把……悶死”)的過去分詞（對比古英語 āswōgan (“覆蓋”)），源自原始日耳曼語 *swōganą (“發出響聲”) ← 原始印歐語 *(s)weh₂gʰ-。與低地德語 swogen (“歎息，呻吟”), 荷蘭語 zwoegen (“呻吟，大口呼吸”)，方言挪威語 søgja (“吹哨，大聲談話”)同源。參見sough。

動詞

swoon (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 swoons，現在分詞 swooning，一般過去時及過去分詞 swooned) (不及物)

1. (書面) 昏厥

   近義詞： black out、faint、pass out

   • 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版, The Gutenberg Project, 出版於 2008:

     I dropped the vessel quickly to a lower level. Nor was I a moment too soon. The girl had swooned.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
2. (引申义) 癡迷，迷戀
3. 發出帶有喜愛/迷戀情感的聲音

   The girls swooned at the picture of their favorite actor.

   女生们对着她们最喜欢的演员的照片发痴。

   • 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.

派生詞

• swooningly

拓展閱讀

• “swoon”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.