gloat

英 [gl??t] 美[ɡlot]

低頻詞TEM8GRE擴(kuò)展詞匯

第三人稱單數(shù):?gloats;過去式:?gloated;過去分詞:?gloated;現(xiàn)在分詞:?gloating;形容詞:?gloating;

1. gl- "光" + oat => 看到燕麥兩眼就放光，兩眼放光地看著燕麥，因?yàn)楹莛I很想吃。
2. glow + at => *glowat => gloat => 兩眼放光地看著某事物，這種看肯定是“貪婪地看、很高興的那種看，不然就不會(huì)兩眼放光了”。

gloat 幸災(zāi)樂禍，沾沾自喜

詞源同glib, 歡喜，幸災(zāi)樂禍。

gloat (v.): 1570s, "to look at furtively," probably a variant of earlier glout "to gaze attentively, stare, scowl, look glum, pout" (mid-15c.), from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse glotta "to grin, smile scornfully and show the teeth," Swedish dialectal glotta "to peep;" or from Middle High German glotzen "to stare, gape," from the Germanic group of *gl- words that also includes glower. Sense of "to look at with malicious satisfaction, ponder with pleasure something that satisfies an evil passion" first recorded 1748. Johnson didn't recognize the word, and OED writes that it was probably "taken up in the 16th c. from some dialect." Related: Gloated; gloating. As a noun, from 1640s with sense of "side-glance;" 1899 as "act of gloating."
Whosoever attempteth anything for the publike ... the same setteth himselfe upon a stage to be glouted upon by every evil eye. [translators' "note to the reader" in the 1611 King James Bible]

4. Don't you think it's a little unkind to gloat over your competitor's failure?: 你難道不認(rèn)為對(duì)你對(duì)手的失敗幸災(zāi)樂禍?zhǔn)怯悬c(diǎn)不近人情嗎 ?