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外刊例句
- The line’s Chinese leg is a modern marvel: a silk-smooth ride through a blur of birch trees and red-roofed farms.
这条线路的中国段堪称现代奇迹：列车平稳地疾驰着，窗外的白桦树和农场里的红顶房子模模糊糊地一闪而过。
——《经济学人》 - The thin plastic skin on Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner is an engineering marvel, a mix of carbon fibers and epoxy molded into large barrel-shaped sections that are then baked at up to 350 degrees in giant ovens.
波音公司787梦想客机轻薄的塑料外壳是个工程学奇迹，用模具将碳纤维和环氧树脂塑成巨大的桶型部件，然后放入大熔炉在高达350度的温度下烧制而成。
基本释义
[noun] a wonderful or astonishing person or thing
[名词] 一个精彩绝妙或令人大为惊奇的人或事物
深入解读
对于漫威迷们来说， marvel 这个单词是再熟悉不过了的，从漫威漫画（Marvel Comics）、漫威影业（Marvel Studios）、漫威电影宇宙（Marvel Cinematic Universe）到惊奇队长（Captain Marvel）等等，随处可见。
该词与 miracle （奇迹）同源，都是源自拉丁语 mirus （精彩的、绝妙的），14世纪经古法语 merveille （奇迹、奇观、惊奇）进入英语后即用来表示“奇迹”或“令人惊奇的人或事”，侧重指因非凡、奇异或异乎寻常而使人大为惊奇、赞叹或感到钦佩，比如：
- 在我看来真不可思议，他们能这么快推翻过渡政府。
It's a marvel to me how they've managed to oust the interim government from power so quickly.
其复数 marvels 还可以用来表示“不平凡的成果、令人惊奇的成就”，比如：
用作动词时， marvel 相应表示“大为赞叹、惊讶不已、感到惊奇”，常用搭配 marvel at sth 指人对某物充满了惊奇、惊叹或钦佩，比如：
- 他们把六个园丁，加上领队和大量行李塞进一辆非常小的货车里，我对这一壮举惊讶不已。
I marvelled at their feat of cramming six gardeners, plus tour leader and an enormous supply of luggage, into a remarkably small van.
权威用例
站在天安门城楼上感慨系之，历史征程风云激荡，中国共产党人带领亿万人民经千难而百折不挠、历万险而矢志不渝，成就了百年大党的恢宏气象。
Standing on the Tian'anmen Rostrum, one could only marvel at the extraordinary journey traveled by this major Party, a journey of Chinese Communists leading the Chinese people, in their hundreds of millions, in an unyielding struggle against all obstacles and challenges, and scoring spectacular, epoch-making achievements over the past century.
同近义词
- miracle: an amazing product or achievement, or an outstanding example of something
- sensation: a person, object, or event that arouses widespread interest and excitement
- prodigy: an amazing or unusual thing, especially one out of the ordinary course of nature
