英语

其他形式

  • , (古旧)
  • , , , (弃用)

词源

源自拉丁語 (与天空、高空有关的),源自古希臘語 (aithérios, 与高空有关的)。可作 + 分析。

发音

  • (標準英音) 國際音標(幫助)/ɪˈθɪə.ɹɪ.əl/
  • (美國) 國際音標(幫助)/ɪˈθɪɚ.i.əl/
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形容词

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  1. 天上的,天界
    近義詞: ;亦參見Thesaurus:cosmic
    ethereal space
    ethereal regions
    • 1667, , “Book VIII”, 出自 , London: [] [Samuel Simmons], [], →OCLC; 再版為 Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [], London: Basil Montagu Pickering [], 1873, →OCLC,行號s 1282–1284:
      Since to part, / Go heavenly Gueſt, Ethereal Meſſenger, / Sent from whoſe ſovran goodneſs I adore.
      既然要启程离开,就请上路,天上的客人,太空中的信使,接受派遣,来自我所崇拜的至善的上帝。
    • 1837, , Ethel Churchill, 卷 2,頁號s 25–26:
      The fanciful fables of fairy land are but allegories of the young poet's mind when the sweet spell is upon him. Some slight thing calls up the visionary world, and all the outward and actual is for the time forgotten. It is a fever ethereal and lovely; but, like all other fevers, leaving behind weakness and exhaustion.
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    • 1862, , “Walking”, 出自 The Atlantic Monthly, 卷 9, 期 56:
      I trust that we shall be more imaginative, that our thoughts will be clearer, fresher, and more ethereal, as our sky, []
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    • 1885, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man 源自Archangel:
      She was very young—at the most nineteen, with a pale somewhat refined face, yellow hair, merry blue eyes, and shining teeth. Her beauty was of an ethereal type.
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    • Template:RQ:Stevenson St Ives
  2. 缥缈的,纤薄的,轻飘飘的
    近義詞: ;亦參見Thesaurus:gaseous, Thesaurus:insubstantial, Thesaurus:subtle
    • Template:RQ:Pope Essay on Man
    • 1834, , Francesca Carrara, 卷 1,頁號 3:
      Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius developes itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!
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    • Template:RQ:Melville Pierre
    • Template:RQ:Woolf Voyage Out
  3. (有機化學) 乙醚
    近義詞:
    an ethereal solution乙醚溶液

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