delight的意思|delight的解释-里氏词典

Delight \De*light"\, n. [OE. delit, OF. delit, deleit, fr.
delitier, to delight. See {Delight}, v. t.]
1. A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought
state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme
satisfaction; joy.

Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt
not. --Shak.

A fool hath no delight in understanding. --Prov.
xviii. 2.

2. That which gives great pleasure or delight.

Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight.
--Milton.

3. Licentious pleasure; lust. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Delight \De*light"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Delighted}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Delighting}.] [OE. deliten, OF. delitier, deleitier,
F. d['e]lecter, fr. L. delectare to entice away, to delight
(sc. by attracting or alluring), intens. of delicere to
allure, delight; de- + lacere to entice, allure; cf. laqueus
a snare. Cf. {Delectate}, {Delicate}, {Delicious},
{Dilettante}, {Elicit}, {Lace}.]
To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please
highly; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony
delights the ear.

Inventions to delight the taste. --Shak.

Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds.
--Tennyson.

Delight \De*light"\, v. i.
To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly
pleased or rejoiced; -- followed by an infinitive, or by in.

Love delights in praises. --Shak.

I delight to do thy will, O my God. --Ps. xl. 8.

The picturesque moments, including the Butterfly Dance, the Chair Dance, and the Canaries, are drawn with skill and delight.
His audience roared with delight at this zinger, which had so much flattery in it.
His commentaries sometimes take an off-beat approach. "I think that's the delight in being in sports; you can do a lot of things you can't do (in other fields)," he said.
Maxi in particular is so down to earth that when we see her squealing with delight in the Trump Tower atrium, we could be in any shopping mall anywhere in America.
She squealed with delight when told it was.
With parents nearby, the children watched in delight the colorful, animated graphics of Mickey Mouse and his friends and listened to the digitalized speech, fully orchestrated music and real-life sound effects.
In that speech, Ms. Richards, who is Texas' state treasurer, brought roars of delight from Democrats with her "silver foot" line.
The combination of the most draconian spending squeeze for a decade and another hefty round of tax rises left Conservative MPs howling with delight.
Imagine my delight, then, to find that this production was no midsummer's nightmare at all but a whimsical and witty rendering of Shakespeare's fairy fantasy.
Today there were some clouds and it was a great delight to enjoy the morning.
Yet it is Mr Kinnock's personality that continues to provoke unease. His Tuscan holidays, his obvious delight in theatre and music, his fondness for the well-chosen word show an unashamed pride in middle-class tastes.
To his delight, ChemLawn agreed to knock $100 off his next annual lawn-care bill.
Here, the energies of David Thacker's production have gone into the outrageous design and costumes (William Dudley). The set is an origamist's delight of twisted paper-look stairways and cut-out balustrades, erected with Pisan inclination.
The "Pythagoras" graffiti tell, sometimes eloquently, of an outburst of delight and surprise in a place of monotonous routine.
Director John Doyle keeps the action moving at the speed of thought; the design is flexible and the costumes are a delight, all bold coloured Lycra with added ruffs and flounces. The small cast doubles as musicians.
The managers of some companies will delight in knowing their jobs are safe no matter what happens to the share price.
The Africans' performances in Boston often prompted hoots of delight, rhythmic clapping and standing ovations.
It would be too much to say that they want the don to succeed, but certainly they delight in the attempt.
It is clearly a score in which Morris finds much to delight him: its exemplary craft, its melodic freshness, its clarity of form, even a certain Ecole Pompier academism.
To the delight of more than one police officer and reporter, Johnson paused to chat and sign a few autographs.
The warmth of his reception can be put down partly to genuine delight at such performable music, and to the sight of a nonagenarian enjoying every minute. Goldschmidt's time has come, and he deserves a medal for surviving to witness it.
This is the home of dim sum (meaning 'heart's delight' or 'to touch the heart').
"It must be a universal delight in terms of those changes in your neighboring countries," Bush told him.
This will delight environmentalists, who have said the Nagymaros dam scheme will destroy wetlands and their unique wildlife, and probably will anger Czecholovakia, which already has spent $1.1 billion on a companion project.
The Soviet president left his limousine to greet crowds before a luncheon at the governor's mansion, crossed the street after lunch to the delight of another group and walked the street a third time near the St. Paul Cathedral.
The same delight in life occurs near the end of the play when the young girl and her dying aunt, a painter who resembles Georgia O'Keeffe, reach an understanding.
People shop there out of loyalty to the neighborhood and delight in seeing signs of black culture.
The previous example was a similar joint opinion produced by her and Mr Leonard Hoffmann -now also a judge - in 1983, and supplemented a year later. The new version is a delight to the ears of Mr David Tweedie, chairman of the board.
This year, there are 100 events ranging from Soweto Jive Music to writing masterclasses through Indian cinema, mountaineering, Scandinavian poetry and a PEN lecture by Carlos Fuentes. Hay means instruction and delight.
It took no vocabulary in the finer points of piano technique to delight in the great artist's playing.

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