astonishment• To her astonishment, she had almost enjoyed their conversation.• To her astonishment, they fell together.• Everyone gasped in astonishment as the cars came around the last bend.• Her eyebrowsrose in astonishment when she saw that somebody had taken her parking place.• You should have seen the look of astonishment on his face!• We exclaimed our astonishment and relief, and rushed to embrace him.• As he passed our party he saluted with politeastonishment.• To everyone's astonishment, more than 100 people volunteered to help that day.• Wyatt came over to watch out of sheerastonishment and pride.• Maybe it was the element of sheer surprise, the astonishment that anyone could be so stupid.
in astonishment• The crowd gasped in astonishment.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + ASTONISHMENT | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤great大吃一驚▸➤absolute, complete, utter絕對的/完全的/萬分的驚訝▸➤mild (especially BrE) 有些驚訝◇an air of mild astonishment略微有些驚訝的神態➤blank (especially BrE) 驚愕◇a look of blank astonishment驚愕的神情VERB + ASTONISHMENT➤express表示驚訝▸➤hide掩飾驚訝◇She simply could not hide her astonishment.她實在無法掩飾她的驚訝。PREPOSITION➤in astonishment吃驚地◇She gazed at him in astonishment.她吃驚地盯着他。➤to sb's astonishment使某人吃驚的是◇Then, to my great astonishment, he started to cry.然後,令我大為吃驚的是,他哭了起來。➤with astonishment由於驚訝◇Everyone gasped with astonishment.每個人都驚得倒吸了一口氣。➤astonishment at對⋯感到驚訝◇He expressed astonishment at the results.他對結果表示吃驚。PHRASES➤a gasp of astonishment, a look of astonishment驚訝的喘息/神情