Word · Frequency #3393
delighting
使高兴；使愉快
delighting is the present participle of delight.
to give someone great pleasure; to please someone very much
- 1.
To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
使人愉悦；带来极大快乐；高度取悦。
- 2.
To have or take great pleasure.
感到或享受极大的快乐。
- 3.
give pleasure to or be pleasing to
使高兴或令人愉悦
感到高兴；以…为乐；使人愉悦；带来极大快乐；高度取悦。；感到或享受极大的快乐。；使高兴或令人愉悦；使高兴
In use
The beautiful garden delights everyone who visits it.
She delighted her parents with her excellent exam results.
The children are delighting in the new playground equipment.
Verb forms
base delight · third person delights · -ing delighting · past delighted · past participle delighted
规则动词，过去式和过去分词加-ed。
Connections
Collocations
- delight in
- 以…为乐；喜欢
- She delights in making her little sister laugh.她以逗妹妹笑为乐。
- delight the audience
- 使观众愉悦
- The street performer delighted the audience with his jokes.街头艺人用笑话使观众愉悦。
- delight the eye
- 赏心悦目；悦目
- The colorful flowers delight the eye.五颜六色的花朵赏心悦目。
- delight someone with something
- 用某物使某人高兴
- She delighted her friend with a surprise birthday cake.她用惊喜的生日蛋糕让朋友高兴不已。
- delight children
- 使孩子们高兴
- The clown's tricks delighted the children at the party.小丑的把戏让聚会上的孩子们非常高兴。
Idioms & figurative uses
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想：词尾像 light（光），心里一亮，便 delight（高兴）。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：正式书面表达、文学性文本 delight 作动词表示“使高兴”或“以…为乐”时，多用于正式或书面语；日常口语中更常用 please 或 enjoy。固定搭配 delight in 比较常见于文学或典雅表达。
Grammar Note
常用作及物动词，后接宾语
Pronunciation & Spelling
这些词都以 /aɪt/ 结尾，与 delight 的重读元音和尾音一致，构成真押韵：polite, night, light, right, bright, white。注意拼写相似的词不一定同音：weight, freight, eight 发音为 /eɪt/；quiet 为 /ˈkwaɪət/；suite 为 /swiːt/。
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 3，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from DICTIONARY_API_DEV, ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.