名詞 · 1
词源
源自中古英語 swoune, swone,源自動詞。
释义
昏厥
"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!"
1897, 布萊姆·斯托克, 德古拉 Chapter 21
癡迷
词形与写法(2)
| 词形 | 标注 | 转写 |
|---|
| swound | archaic · alternative | |
| swoons | plural | |
動詞 · 2
词源
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。
释义
昏厥
literaryI 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.
1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 539:
I dropped the vessel quickly to a lower level. Nor was I a moment too soon. The girl had swooned.
1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Gods of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
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…
2011年 8月2日,「Perry the Platypus」,收錄於Phineas and Ferb: Across the 1st and 2nd Dimensions,由 Randy Crenshaw,Walt Disney Records:
癡迷,迷戀
引申义發出帶有喜愛/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。
[Swoons] For sure. He's totally dreamy. Uh--but my heart still belongs to you, Pac-ums.
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
词形与写法(4)
| 词形 | 标注 | 转写 |
|---|
| swound | archaic · alternative | |
| swoons | third-person · singular · present | |
| swooning | present · participle | |
| swooned | past · participle · 簡單過去時 | |
近义词(3)
派生词(1)
swooningly