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形容詞

astounded (comparative more astounded, superlative most astounded)

1. Surprised, amazed, astonished or bewildered.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 279-282:

     […] now they lye
     Groveling and prostrate on yon Lake of Fire,
     As we erewhile, astounded and amaz’d,
     No wonder, fall’n such a pernicious highth.

   • 1774, Thomas Hull, Richard Plantagenet: A Legendary Tale‎, London: J. Bell, page 13:

     […] wrapt in Suspense
     And Fear I stood, yet knew not what I fear’d;
     When straight to my appall’d, astounded Sense
     A Man of noble Port and Mien appear’d.

   • 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Spectacles” in The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, New York: W.J. Widdleton, Volume 2, p. 327,

     Had a thunderbolt fallen at my feet I could not have been more thoroughly astounded […]

   • 1969, Margaret Atwood, chapter 19, in The Edible Woman‎, New York: Popular Library, published 1976, page 168:

     The housewife was to take a sip of the real juice, watch the interviewer mix the Instant right before her astounded eyes, and then try the result, impressed, possibly, by its quickness and ease […]

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