这俚语让您的英语更引人注目：flabbergast

“Flabbergast” 这个词语您有听过吗？

这是一个有意思、口语很常见、很值得学习用的俚语。

“Flabbergast” 是动词，把它的被动语态 “flabbergasted”  当作形容词来用是最习惯的用法。

“Flabbergasted”有“目瞪口呆” 之意。它有这些近义词：

amazed and surprised, astonished, astounded, confounded,

dazed, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, speechless, stunned, 

stupefied, 等等。

习惯用法：

-  Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said that he

was "flabbergasted" by the fifty-five-million-plus requests for

Canadian citizenship, adding that it was difficult to pinpoint the

precise reasons for the staggering increase. 

-  My dad was flabbergasted when we told him that our round trip

ticket from New York to Beijing cost only $399.

-  Jane was totally flabbergasted when Michael turned her down.

All along she had been getting good vibes from Michael. 

-  Our five-year-old has been learning Mandarin for 3 months. The

first time he opened his mouth and said “妈妈我爱你！”in Chinese 

I was so flabbergasted.

语法正确但不那么常见的用法：

-  The bad news will flabbergast John. He'd never have expected it.

这俚语很管用，在日常会话里用这俚语会让您的口语更为生动！不妨试用一下，保证听者会立刻“目瞪口呆”！

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