形容词 · 1

词源

源自荷蘭語 vrolijk (“欢喜的”),源自中古荷蘭語 vrolijc,源自古荷蘭語 frōlīk,源自原始日耳曼語 *frawalīkaz。对比德語 fröhlich (“开心的,快乐的”)。 前一个元素,最终源自原始日耳曼語 *frawaz并与中古英語 frow (“匆忙的”)同源;之后的元素,最终源自*-līkaz并与-ly、-like同源。

读音

  • /ˈfɹɒlɪk/ Received-Pronunciation
  • /ˈfɹɑlɪk/ General-American

释义

  1. 开心的,欢快的,欢腾的,闹腾的

    現罕用

    There on Beds of Violets blew,

    1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro” in Poems, London: Humphrey Moseley, p. 31,

    The gay, the frollick, and the loud.

    1682, Edmund Waller, “Of Love” in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons, London: H. Herringman, 5th edition, 1686, p. 73,

    You meet him at the tables and conversations of the wise, the impertinent, the grave, the frolic, and the witty; [...]

    1766, Joseph Addison, The Spectator - Volume 5 - Page 304:

    Beale, under this frolic menace, took nothing back at all; he was indeed apparently on the point of repeating his extravagence, but Miss Overmore instructed her little charge that she was not to listen to his bad jokes [...].

    1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
  2. 慷慨的,大方的

    obsolete · rare
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frolickalternative
more froliccomparative
most frolicsuperlative
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动词 · 2

词源

源自荷蘭語 vrolijk (“欢喜的”),源自中古荷蘭語 vrolijc,源自古荷蘭語 frōlīk,源自原始日耳曼語 *frawalīkaz。对比德語 fröhlich (“开心的,快乐的”)。 前一个元素,最终源自原始日耳曼語 *frawaz并与中古英語 frow (“匆忙的”)同源;之后的元素,最终源自*-līkaz并与-ly、-like同源。

读音

  • /ˈfɹɒlɪk/ Received-Pronunciation
  • /ˈfɹɑlɪk/ General-American

释义

  1. 欢跃,欢闹,嬉戏

    intransitive

    We saw the lambs frolicking in the meadow.

    我们看到羔羊在草地上嬉戏。

  2. 使...欢快

    archaic · transitive
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frolickalternative
frolicsthird-person · singular · present
frolickingpresent · participle
frolickedpast · participle · 簡單過去時
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名词 · 3

词源

源自荷蘭語 vrolijk (“欢喜的”),源自中古荷蘭語 vrolijc,源自古荷蘭語 frōlīk,源自原始日耳曼語 *frawalīkaz。对比德語 fröhlich (“开心的,快乐的”)。 前一个元素,最终源自原始日耳曼語 *frawaz并与中古英語 frow (“匆忙的”)同源;之后的元素,最终源自*-līkaz并与-ly、-like同源。

读音

  • /ˈfɹɒlɪk/ Received-Pronunciation
  • /ˈfɹɑlɪk/ General-American

释义

  1. 快乐,愉悦

    By the old-fashioned magnificence of this procession, it might worthily have included his Holiness in person, with a suite of attendant Cardinals, if those sacred dignitaries would kindly have lent their aid to heighten the frolic of the Carnival.

    2012 (original 1860), Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun - Page 276:
  2. 欢闹的举动

    He would be at his frolic once again.

    1680, James Dillon, 3rd Earl of Roscommon, Art of Poetry
  3. 聚会

    obsolete · 主要用於美國

    He came clattering up to the school door with an invitation to Ichabod to attend a merry-making or “quilting frolic,” to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel’s

    1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
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frolickalternative
frolicsplural
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