English Dictionary

rapture

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɹæpt͡ʃɚ/

動詞

古風 他動詞 自動詞 稀用 稀用

(dated, transitive) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement. / (dated, intransitive) To experience great happiness or excitement.

日本語の意味

（他動詞）～を大いに喜ばせる、非常に幸せな気分にさせる / （自動詞）大いに喜ぶ、歓喜に浸る

The sunrise over the mountains can rapture even the most jaded traveler.

山々の朝焼けは、最も世慣れした旅人でさえもうっとりさせることがある。

意味（1）

(dated, transitive) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.

She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart.

意味（2）

(dated, intransitive) To experience great happiness or excitement.

意味（3）

(transitive) To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.

If she's raptured, Ellen said to them on the fifth night after Marylee's disappearance, as they sat on the roof of the building on their old beanbags and rusting garden furniture hauled up from the Museum, if that's what happened to her, then […]

意味（4）

(rare, intransitive) To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.

意味（5）

(uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.

And then the flowers! May-day indeed. Hester had been in Switzerland at the end of June, years on years before, and often had she raptured to Effie about the day's ride, in which they collected a hundred varieties of flowers, most of them new to them.

raptures （ present singular third-person ）

rapturing （ participle present ）

raptured （ participle past ）

raptured （ past ）