enthusiasm
enthusiasm
noun
[mass noun]
noun
[mass noun]
- intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval
热心，热忱，狂热
her energy and enthusiasm for life.
她的精力和生活热情。
few expressed enthusiasm about the current leaders.
几乎没有人对目前的领导人表现出很大的兴趣。
■[count noun]a thing that arouses such feelings
激发热情的东西，热衷的事物
the three enthusiasms of his life were politics, religion, and books.
他一生所热衷的三件事是：政治、宗教和书籍。 - (archaic, derogatory)religious fervour supposedly resulting directly from divine inspiration, typically involving speaking in tongues and wild, uncoordinated movements of the body
(古，贬)宗教狂热；神灵感应
- early 17th cent. (in sense 2): from French enthousiasme, or via late Latin from Greek enthousiasmos, from enthous 'possessed by a god, inspired' (based on theos 'god')
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