ardour

英 [ˈɑːdə(r)]

美 [ˈɑːrdər]

n.  激情; 热情

复数：ardours　

TEM8

BNC.20938

牛津词典

noun

• 激情；热情
  very strong feelings of enthusiasm or love

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 ardor


• N-UNCOUNT 激情；热情
  Ardouris a strong, intense feeling of love or enthusiasm for someone or something.
  1. ...songs of genuine passion and ardour.
     真正富有激情的歌曲
  2. ...my ardor for football.
     我对足球的热情

英英释义

noun

• feelings of great warmth and intensity
  1. he spoke with great ardor
  Synonym:ardorfervorfervourfervencyfirefervidness
• intense feeling of love
  Synonym:ardor
• a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)
  1. they were imbued with a revolutionary ardor
  2. he felt a kind of religious zeal
  Synonym:ardorelanzeal

双语例句

• In people's ardour to rebuild, once-taboo ideas are emerging on how to reform and deregulate not just the damaged areas but the country at large ( see article).
  与人民的重建热情共同高涨的，还有一度被视为禁忌的观念，即：如何对受灾地区、甚至对全国进行改革，解除管制（见文章）。
• THE dismal labour market has not sapped the government's ardour for welfare reform, nor that of voters.
  惨淡的就业市场没有浇灭政府和选举人对福利改革的热情。
• His ardour was stilled by the impact of her words.
  他的满腔激情被她那番话的冲击平息了。
• Nothing daunted the ardour of the merchant navy.
  任何困难都不能挫败商船船员的锐气。
• Every time she held the skimmer under the pump to cool it for the work her hand trembled, the ardour of his affection being so palpable that she seemed to flinch under it like a plant in too burning a sun.
  她每次把撇奶油的勺子拿到冷水管下面冷却时，手直发颤，她也可以感觉到他的感情是那样炽热，而她就像是猛烈燃烧着的太阳底下的一棵植物，似乎想避开逃走。
• Full of militancy and revolutionary ardour, the people of all nationalities in the country are working hard for the realization of the four modernizations.
  全国各族人民意气风发，斗志昂扬，为实现四个现代化而奋战。
• If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest in all its ardour and paradoxes than our travels.
  假如我们的生活其要义在于追求幸福，那么除却旅行，也许极少有别的活动能如此充分地显示这一追求过程中所有的热情和矛盾。
• Not only can it consummate the traditional way for the articulation of interests, but also it can waken the ardour of people to be concerned with the politics farthest.
  它不仅完善了在传统的问政方式上的表达方式，而且还激发了广大人们的参与政治活动的热情。
• His ardour cooled after only a few weeks.
  他的激情仅过了几个星期就冷却了。
• I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth. ( No.208).
  我不会嫉妒任何凭智慧和知识得到的荣誉，如果我能忝列在那些给热情于美德和给信心于真理的作家之中。