emotion: [16] The semantic notion underlying emotion – of applying ‘physical movement’ metaphorically to ‘strong feeling’ – is an ancient one: Latin used the phrase mōtus animā, literally ‘movement of the spirit’, in this sense. Emotion itself is a post-classical Latin formation; it comes ultimately from Vulgar Latin *exmovēre, literally ‘move out’, hence ‘excite’, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and movēre ‘move’ (source of English move).
In French this became émouvoir, and English borrowed its derived noun émotion, but at first used it only in the literal sense ‘moving, agitation’ (‘The waters continuing in the caverns … caused the emotion or earthquake’, Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society 1758) and the metaphorically extended ‘political agitation or disturbance’ (a sense now preserved only in émeute [19], another derivative of French émouvoir).
It was not until the late 17th century that the sense ‘strong feeling’ really came to the fore. The back-formation emote is a 20th-century phenomenon, of US origin. => émeute, move
emotion (n.)
1570s, "a (social) moving, stirring, agitation," from Middle French émotion (16c.), from Old French emouvoir "stir up" (12c.), from Latin emovere "move out, remove, agitate," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + movere "to move" (see move (v.)). Sense of "strong feeling" is first recorded 1650s; extended to any feeling by 1808.
权威例句
1. A tide of emotion rose and clouded his judgement.
心头涌起一阵强烈的感情,模糊了他的判断力。
2. Most of those attending the funeral stood silently showing little emotion.
出席葬礼的人大多都面无表情地静静站着。
3. When we feel anger, we bury the emotion and feel guilty instead.
当我们感到愤怒时,压抑这种情绪反而会觉得内疚。
4. Her voice breaking with emotion, she told him: "It doesn't seem fair".
她激动得声音颤抖,对他说:“这好像不公平吧。”
5. For just the second time a look of emotion creases his face.
他的脸上,第二次流露出了感情。
词语辨析
【sentiment, sensation, feeling, passion, emotion】
这组词都有“感情”的意思,其区别是:
sentiment: n.思想感情,情绪,感情色彩,指由于某种思想唤起的感情,强调主观作用,有时候也带有理智成分。
• When our grandmother died, we remembered her life with strong sentiment. 当祖母逝世时,我们深深地怀念她的一生。
sensation: n.指人体感官受到外部刺激时产生的感觉,知觉。
• When she watched the film, she had the sensation that she was in a moving car. 她看电影时,感觉自己正坐在一辆开动的汽车上。
feeling: n.指一般的情绪、感觉,它一般不反映感情的本质和强度。
passion: n.激情,热情,欲望,极度的仇恨,指强烈的爱好、愤怒或情欲。
• He spoke with passion about the love of freedom. 他满腔热情地谈论着对自由的热爱。
emotion: n.情感,感情,指喜怒哀乐等较激动的情绪,表示某物引起的激动。
• He felt mixed emotions when he thought of her. 当他想起她时便产生一种复杂的感情。