aghast
意味
- (…に)びっくりして,驚きあきれて《+at+名》
例文
I'm aghast at the lack of manners, common sense and so on and so forth on the net.
ネット上のマナーやら常識の無さやうんちゃらかんちゃらにうんざりしっぱなしです。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English agast, agasted, past participle of agasten (“to terrify”), from Old English a- (compare with Gothic 𐌿𐍃- (us-), German er-, originally meaning "out") + gæstan (“to terrify, torment”): compare Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgaisjan, “to terrify”, literally “to fix, to root to the spot with terror”); akin to Latin haerere (“to stick fast, cling”). By surface analysis, a- + ghast/gast. See gaze.