emotion
英 [?'m???(?)n]
美 [?'mo??n]
助記提示
1. 從內部運動、迸發出來的東西 => 情感、感情。
中文詞源
emotion 感情，激情e-, 向外。-mot, 移動，流露，詞源同move, motion.
英文詞源
- emotion
- emotion: [16] The semantic notion underlying emotion – of applying ‘physical movement’ metaphorically to ‘strong feeling’ – is an ancient one: Latin used the phrase mōtus animā, literally ‘movement of the spirit’, in this sense. Emotion itself is a post-classical Latin formation; it comes ultimately from Vulgar Latin *exmovēre, literally ‘move out’, hence ‘excite’, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and movēre ‘move’ (source of English move).
In French this became émouvoir, and English borrowed its derived noun émotion, but at first used it only in the literal sense ‘moving, agitation’ (‘The waters continuing in the caverns … caused the emotion or earthquake’, Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society 1758) and the metaphorically extended ‘political agitation or disturbance’ (a sense now preserved only in émeute [19], another derivative of French émouvoir).
It was not until the late 17th century that the sense ‘strong feeling’ really came to the fore. The back-formation emote is a 20th-century phenomenon, of US origin.
=> émeute, move - emotion (n.)
- 1570s, "a (social) moving, stirring, agitation," from Middle French émotion (16c.), from Old French emouvoir "stir up" (12c.), from Latin emovere "move out, remove, agitate," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + movere "to move" (see move (v.)). Sense of "strong feeling" is first recorded 1650s; extended to any feeling by 1808.
雙語例句
- 1. A tide of emotion rose and clouded his judgement.
- 心頭涌起一陣強烈的感情，模糊了他的判斷力。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Most of those attending the funeral stood silently showing little emotion.
- 出席葬禮的人大多都面無表情地靜靜站著。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. When we feel anger, we bury the emotion and feel guilty instead.
- 當我們感到憤怒時，壓抑這種情緒反而會覺得內疚。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Her voice breaking with emotion, she told him: "It doesn't seem fair".
- 她激動得聲音顫抖，對他說：“這好像不公平吧。”
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. For just the second time a look of emotion creases his face.
- 他的臉上，第二次流露出了感情。
來自柯林斯例句