rapture

• n. 兴高采烈
• vt. 使…狂喜

来自 rapt,全神贯注的，-ure,名词后缀。比喻用法。

rapture

rapture: [17] Rapture is one of a large family of English words that go back ultimately to Latin rapere ‘seize by force’. Its past participle was raptus (source of English rapt [14]), which formed the basis of the medieval Latin noun raptūra ‘seizure’, hence ‘ecstasy’ – whence English rapture. From the same source come rapacious [17], rape ‘violate sexually’, rapid, rapine [15], ravage, ravenous, ravine, ravish, surreptitious, and usurp.
=> rapacious, rape, rapid, ravage, ravenous, ravine, ravish, surreptitious, usurp

rapture (n.)

c. 1600, "act of carrying off," from Middle French rapture, from Medieval Latin raptura "seizure, rape, kidnapping," from Latin raptus "a carrying off, abduction, snatching away; rape" (see rapt). Earliest attested use in English is of women and in 17c. it sometimes meant rape (v.), which word is a cognate of this. Sense of "spiritual ecstasy, state of mental transport" first recorded c. 1600 (raptures).

rapture (v.)

1630s, from rapture (n.). Related: Raptured; rapturing.

1. The film was shown to gasps of rapture at the Democratic Convention.

在民主党大会上放映的电影使人们十分欣喜。

来自柯林斯例句

2. What joy, what rapture, what glory to see him again!

再见到他是多么高兴、多么欢欣、多么美妙的事啊！

来自柯林斯例句

3. I stare in rapture at the ball.

我欣喜若狂地盯着球。

来自柯林斯例句

4. Charles listened with rapture to her singing.

查尔斯兴致勃勃地听她演唱。

来自《权威词典》

5. She was in the seventh heaven of rapture.

她欣喜若狂.

来自《简明英汉词典》