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Перевод: wonderment
[существительное] удивление; изумление; нечто удивительное
Тезаурус:
- She stood in wonderment, looking through the great glass observation windows into the centre of the complex.
- Were you gripped in wonderment at the April Foolery abroad on the airwaves last week?
- "He's wonderful," he gasped, as he gazed at the little face and held each tiny hand, studying the miniature nails in wonderment.
- There was curiosity and wonderment at those features of life that went unremarked by the natives but to foreigners were so eccentric, and so quintessentially British, like porridge and kippers for breakfast, "a peculiar liquid which looked like coffee, tasted like poison and was said to be tea", and bottles of HP Sauce and vinegar on the dining table.
- Economic reform has so far meant that Poles can gaze in wonderment at now well-stocked meat stalls they have no money to buy from.
- In this opera of ensembles there is, however, a price to pay for such fierce individualization: the beauty of Mozart's blended vocal writing is sometimes sacrificed, and there is little sense of joint wonderment as each new turn of events is unfolded.
- The French, it must be said, have been lost for centuries in wonderment at science.
- In such comments we find ourselves in the precise atmosphere of Rudolf Otto's " numinous ", the " mysterium tremendum et fascinans " - the mystery that creates wonderment as well as terror - which surely accounts at least in part for the high level of religious feeling in Canadian folklore and literature; not least in Leonard's expression of it.
- Sir, - May I congratulate the photographer who took the picture in last week's edition showing a young boy looking up at the Queen with wonderment and awe.
- When we met him last he was a mere lad down in Somerset, gazing in wonderment at troops of militia, itinerant theatre companies and a larger-than-life basking shark.
- He shook his head in wonderment.
- If the City chairman had sacked Mel Machin to bring in a John Bond or Malcolm Allison then heads really would have been shaking in wonderment at another Peter Swales masterstroke.
- They are now both gratefully sipping piping hot coffee, provided by RMP, still dripping wet, with looks of wonderment and happiness written across their faces.
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