glee

B2 FREQ #10245 ★☆☆☆☆

n. 欢乐, 高兴

发音

其它 /ɡliː/

词形变化

glees 复数 glees gleeing glees 三单 gleeing 现在分词 gleed 过去式 gleed 过去分词

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.

    不可数 可数
  2. 2.

    Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.

    不可数 可数
  3. 3.

    An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.

    可数 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song).

词汇关系

名词

同义词 6

gloat gloating mirth hilarity gleefulness mirthfulness

上位词 3

satisfaction merriment gaiety

相关短语

glee club n. 合唱团, 合唱俱乐队 glee clubs

词源

From Middle English gle, from Old English glēo, glīġ, glēow, glīw (“glee, pleasure, mirth, play, sport; music; mockery”), from Proto-West Germanic *glīw, from Proto-Germanic *glīwą (“joy, mirth”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlew- (“to joke, make fun, enjoy”). Cognate with Scots gle, glie, glew (“game, play, sport, mirth, joy, rejoicing, entertainment, melody, music”), Icelandic glý (“joy, glee, gladness”), Ancient Greek χλεύη (khleúē, “joke, jest, scorn”). A poetic word in Middle English, the word was obsolete by 1500, but revived late 18c.

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