aflutter

a. 飘扬的, 激动的 adv. 飘扬

发音

UK /əˈflʌt.ə/
US /əˈflʌt.ɚ/
AU

词形变化

more aflutter 比较级 most aflutter 最高级

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Filled or covered (with something that flutters).

  2. 2.

    Fluttering.

    1888, W. B. Yeats, “King Gall” in uncredited editor, Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, Dublin: M.H. Gill, p. 43, They will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me—the beech leaves old

  3. 3.

    In a state of tremulous excitement, anticipation or confusion.

    1930, Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, Once in a Lifetime, Act III, in Burns Mantle (ed.), The Best Plays of 1930-31, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1931, p. 144, […] in breaks Susan Walker a little more aflutter than usual. The picture is wonderful. Seeing her name in lights is wonderful. Everything is just wonderful.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 1

nervous

近义相关 1

excited

词源

From a- + flutter.

来源：wiktionary