如何记忆astonish

Day 325 morning 2021

1、astonish：使惊讶

咱们有个词叫“五雷轰顶”，用来形容人的极度震惊。英语恰巧也用“打雷”来指人的惊讶。

as 来自前缀 ex- 变体，此处表强调。词根 ton, 雷，拟声词，同 thunder. 指如被雷击，-ish 为后缀。

2、单词 apparition 的字面意思就是“出现”。由于该词最初使用于宗教场合，表示“耶稣基督显灵”，因此该词主要用于表示幽灵鬼怪等事物的出现。

词根词缀： ap- 加强意义 + -par- 出现 + -ition 名词词尾。和appear （出现）是同源词。

Now I stared at this sudden apparition with my eyes fairly starting out of my head in astonishment. Remember, I had crashed in the desert a thousand miles from any inhabited region. And yet my little man seemed neither to be straying uncertainly among the sands, nor to be fainting from fatigue or hunger or thirst or fear.