ardour

英 [ˈɑːdə(r)]

美 [ˈɑːrdər]

n.  激情; 热情

复数：ardours　

TEM8

BNC.20938

牛津词典

noun

• 激情；热情
  very strong feelings of enthusiasm or love

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 ardor


• N-UNCOUNT 激情；热情
  Ardouris a strong, intense feeling of love or enthusiasm for someone or something.
  1. ...songs of genuine passion and ardour.
     真正富有激情的歌曲
  2. ...my ardor for football.
     我对足球的热情

英英释义

noun

• feelings of great warmth and intensity
  1. he spoke with great ardor
  Synonym:ardorfervorfervourfervencyfirefervidness
• intense feeling of love
  Synonym:ardor
• a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)
  1. they were imbued with a revolutionary ardor
  2. he felt a kind of religious zeal
  Synonym:ardorelanzeal

双语例句

• Every time she held the skimmer under the pump to cool it for the work her hand trembled, the ardour of his affection being so palpable that she seemed to flinch under it like a plant in too burning a sun.
  她每次把撇奶油的勺子拿到冷水管下面冷却时，手直发颤，她也可以感觉到他的感情是那样炽热，而她就像是猛烈燃烧着的太阳底下的一棵植物，似乎想避开逃走。
• If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest in all its ardour and paradoxes than our travels.
  假如我们的生活其要义在于追求幸福，那么除却旅行，也许极少有别的活动能如此充分地显示这一追求过程中所有的热情和矛盾。
• THE dismal labour market has not sapped the government's ardour for welfare reform, nor that of voters.
  惨淡的就业市场没有浇灭政府和选举人对福利改革的热情。
• Nothing daunted the ardour of the merchant navy.
  任何困难都不能挫败商船船员的锐气。
• As another man has an ardour for art or music, or natural science, Mr. Pen said that anthropology was his favourite pursuit.
  正如别人爱好艺术、音乐或自然科学那样，小潘说他爱好人类学。
• Through the investigation of these object images 'meaning, his contradictory life phenomenon as a poet and a politician is shown to disclose his extraordinary personal charm, his ardour life shine and his characteristic life world.
  考察这几个审美物象的意义，在于通过他政治家和诗人矛盾的人生现象，揭示出他超凡的人格魅力，感受他灼热的生命光华，进而走进他独特的生命世界。
• His eyes were bright with ardour and indignation.
  他因为满腔的激情和愤慨而两眼发亮。
• I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth. ( No.208).
  我不会嫉妒任何凭智慧和知识得到的荣誉，如果我能忝列在那些给热情于美德和给信心于真理的作家之中。
• I saw him go to sermon, full of devout zeal, strengthening his reason with the ardour of his love.
  我看见他走进教堂听道，他满怀虔敬的热诚，并以他那热烈的仁爱加强了他的理智。
• His ardour was stilled by the impact of her words.
  他的满腔激情被她那番话的冲击平息了。