- adj. 高興的；樂意的；令人高興的；燦爛美麗的
- vt. 使高興
- n. (Glad)人名；(塞、瑞典)格拉德；(英)格萊德；(法、挪)格拉
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詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?glads;過去式:?gladded;過去分詞:?gladded;現(xiàn)在分詞:?gladding;比較級:?gladder;最高級:?gladdest;
中文詞源
glad 高興的來自PIE*ghel, 照耀，發(fā)光，詞源同glass, gold. 引申義容光滿面的，高興的。
英文詞源
- glad
- glad: [OE] The original meaning of Old English gl?d was ‘bright, shining’. It went back to a prehistoric Germanic *glathaz, which was related to Latin glaber ‘smooth, bald’ (source of English glabrous [17] and Old Slavic gladuku ‘smooth’). ‘Happy’ is a secondary semantic development, which evidently took place before the various Germanic dialects went their own way, for it is shared by Swedish and Danish glad (the sense ‘smooth’, also an extension of ‘bright, shining’, is preserved in German glatt).
=> glabrous - glad (adj.)
- Old English gl?d "bright, shining, gleaming; joyous; pleasant, gracious" (also as a noun, "joy, gladness"), from Proto-Germanic *glada- (cognates: Old Norse glaer "smooth, bright, glad," Danish glad "glad, joyful," Old Saxon gladmod, in which the element means "glad," Old Frisian gled "smooth," Dutch glad "slippery," German glatt "smooth"), from PIE *ghel- (2) "to shine," with derivatives referring to bright materials and gold (see glass). The notion is of being radiant with joy; the modern sense "feeling pleasure or satisfaction" is much weakened. Slang glad rags "one's best clothes" first recorded 1902.
雙語例句
- 1. I'm so glad to see you back where you belong.
- 我真高興看到你又回到了屬于你自己的天地。
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- 2. I'm so glad he had a pang of conscience.
- 我很高興他會有負(fù)疚感。
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- 3. I can't tell you how glad I was to leave that place.
- 我無法形容自己離開那個地方心里有多高興。
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- 4. She was feeling tired and was glad to lean against him.
- 她正感到有些疲倦，因此很高興可以靠在他身上。
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- 5. I'm so glad that we've found you at last!
- 我們終于找到你了，我真是太高興了！
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