词源

源自中古英語 、， (“使...恐惧”)的过去分词，源自古英語 （对比哥特語 ()、德語 ，原指“外，出”） + (“惊吓，虐待”)：对比哥特語 (, “惊吓”, 字面意思是“通过恐惧定住”)，与拉丁語 (“粘住，附着于”)同源。对比、。

发音

• (美國) 國際音標^(幫助)：/əˈɡæst/
• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助)：/əˈɡɑːst/

  • （英国）音频：

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  韻部：-æst, -ɑːst

形容词

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1. 惊呆了的，惊诧的；恐惧的

   I was aghast when the incident unfolded in front of me.

   事情在我眼前发生，把我吓住了。

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   • 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle., The Hound of the Baskervilles:

     And while the revellers stood aghast at the fury of the man, one more wicked or, it may be, more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her.

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   • 1985, Les Misérables, the song "Red and Black"

     I am agog! I am aghast! Is Marius in love at last?

   • 2003, Brian Herbert, “Xanadu”, 出自 ‎, New York: , →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC，頁號 259:

     We sat at a long table with a huge salmon on a platter in the center, prepared Szechuan style. Dad sat at one end of the table, and regaled all present with his stories. In the middle of one convoluted yarn, he rose and went around to the salmon in the center of the table. Using his fingers, he dug an eyeball out of the fish, popped it in his mouth and swallowed it whole as we looked on, aghast. “A real delicacy,” he said, with a boyish smirk.

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   • 2013 8月 14, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian‎:

     Hart, for one, will not remember the night for Lambert's heroics. Morrison, not closed down quickly enough, struck his shot well but England's No1 will be aghast at the way it struck his gloves then skidded off his knees and into the net.

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