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1、两分钟做个小测试,看看你的英语水平 http:/ 的 18 个同义词你是否已经厌倦了 awesome 的单一表达方式,你想用其他的方式来表达 awesome 嘛,这里我们将给大家列出 18 个 awesome 的同义词。1. thriven and thro极好的,卓越的Thriven here appears to derive from the sense meaning advanced in growth, but thro is not found instead it was used in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries to mean st
2、ubborn. Together, as thriven and thro, they were an epithet used in alliterative poetry to call someone excellent.这里 thriven 的含义由 快速生长而来,但是并没发现 thro 从何处演化而来相反,在 14、 15、16 世纪它意为固执的 。 thriven and thro放到一起,在头韵诗歌里用来称赞某人是卓越的。2. gradely出色的,漂亮的Although the earliest known sense of gradely probably referred
3、to people and meant readyorprompt, by 1400 the word could be used to refer to objects to label them awesome. You might not be understood if you said this in London or Cornwall, but its still wide in use in the north of England.虽然 gradely 原意指人,意为“准备好的” , “迅速的” ,但是到 1400 年时这个词就用来指物,用来说明某物是极好的。如果你在伦敦或者
4、康沃尔使用这个词,人们可能无法理解你在说什么,但是在英格兰北部,这个词仍然被广泛使用。3. eximious优良的,卓越的Eximious comes from Latin eximius, meaning select, choice, outstanding, exceptional. And it was common in 17th-century literature as a way of describing someone distinguished.Eximious 由拉丁单词 eximius 演化而来,意为“精选的” 、 “仔细推敲的” 、 “杰出的” 、“超常的” 。Ex
5、imious 形容某人卓越优秀,在十七世纪的文学中被广泛使用。4. jelly优秀的Around 1560, according to current research jelly may be related in some way to jolly, although the phonetic change has no parallel. The use is also a little different describing someone excellent, but with a high opinion of themselves.1560 年左右,根据当时的一个报告,在某种程
6、度上人们把 jelly 和 jolly 联系在一起,虽然两者的发音并不相同。但是 jelly 的用法有一点不同 他指某个人很优秀,但是主观色彩浓厚。5.topgallant最高的,最佳的Originally a nautical noun, relating to the head of the topmast, the adjective later developed from this literal sense to a figurative one, to designate anything lofty or grand.Topgallant 原本是一个描述航海的名词,指的是中桅的
7、最高处。其形容词词义后来从其字面意义发展为比喻意义,指某物崇高或者伟大。6. prestantious卓越的From the Latin praestntia, meaning excellence, this adjective has the distinction of being both rare and obsolete with only one instance recorded in the OED.Prestantious 由拉丁词汇 praestntia演化而来,意为“卓越” , “优秀” 。这个形容词还有“稀少的”和“老式的”的意思仅在牛津词典中有一个在录的例子。7.
8、gallows美妙的,卓越的The earliest sense of the adjective gallows means fit for the gallows that is, deserving to be hanged. In the same way that wicked and bloody have come to mean their reverse, gallows became a slang adjective meaning excellent , first found in 1789.形容词 gallows 本意为适合绞刑架的 也就是说应该被绞死的。Wicke
9、d 和 bloody 的意义也与其本意相反,同样 1789 年俚语 gallows 作为“优秀的”的含义第一次被发现。8. budgeree绝妙的,顶好的This Australian colloquialism dates back to the 18th century, and derives from an Aboriginal language.这个澳大利亚方言可以追溯到 18 世纪,是由土著居民的语言演化而来。9. supernacular极好的Particularly used to describe drinks, supernacular is the adjective e
10、quivalent of the slang noun supernaculum, meaning a drink to be consumed to the last drop.Supernacular 是名词俚语 supernaculum 的形容词形式。supernaculum 用来形容一饮而尽的酒,supernacular 也就尤其用来形容酒。10. jam / jam-up极好的,卓越的From the adverb jam or jam-up (meaning closely, in close contact ) developed the adjectival meaning e
11、xcellent, perfect, thorough, in colloquial use. One could thus, conceivably, jam up jam-up jam, if you were stacking shelves of awesome strawberry preserve.在口语中,该词由副词 jam 或者 jam-up(意为亲密的,紧密联系 )演化为形容词,意为卓越的,完美的,详尽的 。11. boss卓越的,精巧的The adjective boss, meaning excellent, masterly, developed earlier tha
12、n one might imagine from attributive use of the noun in collocation with occupational titles, e.g. boss shoemaker, boss carpenter, etc. the first truly adjectival use recorded in the OED is from 1881: No country in the world could make such a boss-show as the United States.形容词 boss 意为 卓越的,精巧的 ,其发展历史
13、要比其作为名词定语置于职业名称之前的历史还要长,例如, 卓越的制鞋匠 , 卓越的木匠等。据牛津词典记载,boss 第一次作为形容词使用是在 1881 年:世界上没有任何一个国家可以像美国一样做出如此卓越的表演。 12. fizzing卓越的Many verbs have come to have an adjectival slang sense of excellent such as ripping, topping, and rattling. Fizzing is another example.许多动词的形容词都有一层俚语含义,意为卓越的 。例如,ripping, topping,和
14、rattling。Fizzing 也是一个例子。13. bad好的,令人敬畏的Bad can, of course, be the antonym of awesome, but its slang use to mean good is well-known popularized by the 1987 Michael Jackson song Bad.可想而知,bad 是 awesome 的反义词,但是迈克尔杰克逊的歌曲Bad ,使 bad 作为好的,令人敬畏的的含义为众人所知晓。14. deevy极好的Deevy is an alteration of divvy, which is
15、(in turn) a slang abbreviation of divine. Early uses cited in OED include examples from the works of Elinor Glyn, Vita Sackville West, and E.F. Benson.Deevy 是 divvy 的变形,divvy 是 divine 的俚语缩写形式。其早期的用法在牛津词典中有所提及。15. v.g.极好的V.g. as an initialism for very good may well not be new to you, but you might be
16、 surprised to find that its been part of the English language since at least as far back as the 1860s.V.g.是very good的首字母缩略词这可能对你来说并不新奇,但是你会很惊讶的发现至少从 19 世纪 60 年代以来,v.g. 就已经是组成英语的一部分了。16. bosker极好的This Australian and New Zealand slang adjective, of unknown origin, also appears in the form boscar and boshter. Mo