amaze
要点ひどくびっくりさせる
意味
- …をひどくびっくりさせる,驚きあきれさせる
例文
Tom's behavior never ceases to amaze me.
トムの行動にはいつも驚かされる。
Her cleverness often amazes me.
彼女の利口なのによく驚嘆する。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The verb is derived from Middle English *amasen, *amase (“to bewilder, perplex”) (attested chiefly in the past participle form, and thus often difficult to distinguish from amased (adjective)), from Old English āmasian (“to confuse, astonish”), from ā- (perfective prefix) + *masian (“to confound, confuse, perplex; to amaze”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon, signal”)). The English word is analysable as a- (intensifying prefix) + maze (“(archaic) to astonish, amaze, bewilder; to daze, stupefy”). The noun is derived from Late Middle English amase, from the verb: see above.