awestruck

英 [ˈɔːstrʌk]

美 [ˈɔːstrʌk]

adj.  惊叹的

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牛津词典

adj.

• 惊叹的
  feeling very impressed by sth
  1. People were awestruck by the pictures the satellite sent back to earth.
     人们对人造卫星送回地球的图片叹为观止。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 敬畏的；肃然起敬的
  If someone isawestruck, they are very impressed and amazed by something.
  1. I stood and gazed at him, awestruck that anyone could be so beautiful.
     我站在那里凝望着他，惊叹竟有这么美的人。

英英释义

adj

• having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread
  1. stood in awed silence before the shrine
  2. in grim despair and awestruck wonder
  Synonym:awedawestricken

双语例句

• Researchers call this the awestruck effect, but it may just as easily be described as the dumbstruck effect, says The Atlantic article.
  据《大西洋月刊》报道，研究人员将其称为敬畏效应，但它也很容易被描述成惊吓效应。
• In my experience, visitors to China these days are just as awestruck at witnessing the fruits of the stunning building boom in China as they are tramping up and down the Great Wall.
  根据我的经验，目前来中国的游客目睹了中国眩目的造楼热潮后，感受到的那种震撼与登上长城差不多。
• The younger kids looked at me with an awestruck twinkle in their eyes; I was a hero.
  那些比我更小的孩童望着我的眼神充满敬畏，我是个英雄。
• All the other court officials were awestruck by his strict rectitude.
  举朝惮其风采。（《明史》）
• The kids playing stickball gathered to curse the driver who had made them scatter, but now were watching with awestruck interest.
  那些玩儿童棒球的孩子们刚才还咒骂那个把他们吓散了的司机，这时也在旁边看热闹，觉得又怕又有趣。
• Like a petrified waterfall, a cascade of fluted limestone, greened by algae, stops awestruck cavers in their tracks. They're near the exit of Hang En.
  饰出了凹槽的瀑布，看起来象一个石化的瀑布，被藻类染绿，止住了肃然起敬的探洞人的脚步。这里已靠近韩恩洞的出口。
• We sat in awestruck silence after hearing the truth at last.
  我们终于听到了事实真相，吓得一声不响地坐着。
• Stood in awed silence before the shrine; in grim despair and awestruck wonder.
  充满敬畏地静立在神庙前；处于极度的绝望和惊恐中。
• All the family members were thrown into awestruck silence under the threat of the gunmen.
  在持枪歹徒的威胁下一家人吓得一声不响。
• When foreign executives speak of their American counterparts, they are apt to be more scornful than awestruck.
  当国外的经理们谈到他们的美国同行时，往往是轻蔑多于敬畏。