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標題: [每日] suffuse (v) 遍佈
時間: Mon Sep 15 19:31:53 2008
Word of the Day (Monday September 15, 2008)
suffuse \suh-FYOOZ\, transitive verb:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/eb4Mg
To spread through or over in the manner of fluid or light; to
flush.
She gave me a long slow look, as if she were deciding something,
and then she allowed herself to blush, the color suffusing her
throat in a delicious mottle of pink and white.
-- T. Coraghessan Boyle, T. C. Boyle Stories
Have you ever felt happiness suffuse all the cells in your body
and a smile light up your face?
-- Sarabjit Singh, "Queen of the Hills", India Currents, November
30, 1996
Like an angel or an earthquake, it isn't there and then it is; it
doesn't steal over us and suffuse us with a festive spirit like
the gradual effects of alcohol or good deeds.
-- Barbara Peters Smith, "Gladness descends on her home", Sarasota
Herald Tribune, December 27, 2003
Suffuse comes from the past participle of Latin suffundere, "to
overspread; to suffuse," from sub-, "under" + fundere, "to pour."
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