除了amazing，這些表示「讚歎」的詞纔是老外最常用的

If you have friends that are interested in finding awesome things, chances are that you often come across and see things that are awesome and amazing as well! These are things that may help you feel awe, or a feeling of inspiration, admiration, reverence, or fear.

如果你有朋友善於發現很棒的東西，那麼你便也有機會遇到或看到很棒或是令你驚奇的事物！這些事物可以幫助你感知敬畏，或是激發一種靈感、體驗讚美、敬畏或恐懼的感覺。

The problem is, if you try to describe how awesome each of these things that you see are, you will end up using the word awesome or amazing too many times.

問題是，如果你試圖描述你看到的每一件東西都是多麼的棒，你最終會使用awesome或amazing這些詞很多次。

Instead, you can use synonyms, or words that mean something very similar! The following is a list of common words that mean amazing or awesome.

取而代之的是，你可以使用同義詞或是意思是非常相近的詞語！下面是一個含有是令人驚訝或極好的之意的普通單詞列表。

Amazing meaning: inspiring awe, or a feeling of greatness

令人驚歎的意義：激發一種敬畏或很棒的感覺

Depending on the context in which you use amazing, it has several different meanings. The most common use of awesome is to mean something that inspires awe and a feeling of wonder.

根據你使用amazing的上下文，它有好幾個不同的含義。awesome最常見的用法是表達激發敬畏的事和令人驚奇的感覺。

Below are many words can be used interchangeably, and all of them mean something close to creating a feeling of greatness. If you want to describe something very good, try to use these words.

下面是許多可以互換的詞，它們的意思都是接近創造一種很棒的感覺。如果你想描述一些很好的東西，可以試着用這些詞。

Fantastic: extraordinarily good

棒極了：格外的好

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The Broadway show that we saw last night was fantastic!

昨晚我們看的百老匯演出真是太棒了！

The food from the restaurant in Queens was absolutely fantastic!

女王餐廳的食物真是美味極了！

Great: of a considerable amount above the average

偉大的：相當於超出平均水平之上很多

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The team played a great game, but they still lost in the end.

這個隊打了一場精彩的比賽，但最後還是輸了。

In order to be a great leader, you have to understand the goals that you are trying to achieve and the strengths of your team members.

爲了成爲一個偉大的領導者，你必須瞭解你努力實現的目標和團隊成員的力量。

Astonishing: surprising to the point of being impressive

驚人的：令人吃驚到印象深刻

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The number of hot dogs that the hot dog eating contest champion ate was astonishing!

熱狗大賽冠軍吃掉的熱狗數量令人震驚！

It is absolutely astonishing how many people think that climate change is not a manmade phenomenon.

絕對令人震驚的是，有多少人認爲氣候變化不是人爲現象。

Awe-inspiring: so great to the point of inspiring awe

令人敬畏的：如此之棒使得激發了你的敬畏之心

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The way that the athlete was so determined to finish the race even after she fell was so awe-inspiring!

運動員即使在摔倒後也決心完成比賽是多麼令人敬畏啊！

One of the things that people like most about traveling is that the landscape and city views are always so awe-inspiring, especially in nature!

人們最喜歡旅遊的地方之一就是自然景觀和城市景色，它們總是那麼令人驚歎，尤其是置身於大自然中！

Breathtaking: takes someone’s breath away; extremely impressive and great

驚險的：世人驚歎的無法呼吸；令人印象極其深刻和很讚的

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The cultural dance was absolutely breathtaking – I want to watch another show.

文化舞蹈表演真是美妙絕倫，我還想再看一場演出。

The breathtaking views of the Swiss Alps was enough to inspire Todd to move to Switzerland for a couple months.

瑞士阿爾卑斯山令人歎爲觀止的景象足以吸引託德搬到瑞士住幾個月。

Impressive: causing a feeling of admiration

令人印象深刻的：引起一種欽佩的感覺

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It was so impressive that Hannah got perfect scores on all of her tests in science last year!

這太讓我印象深刻了，漢娜在去年所有的科學考試中都得了滿分！

The impressive geysers and mountains in Yellowstone National Park in the United States draw millions of visitors each year.

美國黃石公園令人印象深刻的間歇泉和山脈每年都吸引數百萬遊客。

Magnificent: very impressive and excellent, absolutely good

宏偉壯觀的：印象深刻並且優秀的，極棒的

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Harry would make a magnificent CEO for this company because he has incredible dedication to technology and advancement, and knows how to handle many different projects at once.

哈利會成爲這家公司一位出色的總裁，因爲他對技術和進步有着不可思議的奉獻精神，並且知道如何同時處理許多不同的項目。

Terry had a magnificent summer vacation because he took his family with him to a safari in Tanzania, and his two sons were able to touch a giraffe!

泰瑞度過了一個精彩的暑假，因爲他帶着家人去了坦桑尼亞的野生動物園，他的兩個兒子能夠摸到長頸鹿！

Wonderful: inspiring a feeling full of wonder, admiration

奇妙的：激發一種充滿驚奇、欽佩的感覺

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Your essay is wonderful, dear, just don’t forget to correct your grammar mistakes.

你的文章很棒，親愛的，只是別忘了改正你的語法錯誤。

Dr. Wu is an absolutely wonderful mentor – if you want to learn dermatology, you have to seek his mentorship!

吳博士是一位絕對優秀的導師——如果你想學習皮膚病學，你必須尋求他來做導師！

Stunning: causing someone to pause (literally or figuratively) because something is so amazing

令人震驚的：因爲某事是如此驚人，使某人靜止下來（字面或比喻意）。

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The white sand beaches in Cambodia were so stunning that we decided to stay in the city for an extra three days.

柬埔寨的白色沙灘令人讚歎不已，我們決定在這個城市多呆三天。

My wife looked absolutely stunning in her wedding dress.

我妻子穿着婚紗時顯得驚豔迷人。

Mind-blowing: something that blows the mind, metaphorically, or causing so much wonder as to almost be overwhelming.

使興奮的：一種能使人頭腦發熱、隱喻性的東西，或引起如此多的奇蹟以至於幾乎讓人無法抵抗的感覺

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The principles of psychology that are used in marketing were so mind-blowing when I first learned about them, but I assume that they influence every advertisement I see now.

當我第一次瞭解到營銷心理學的原理時，它令人驚奇，但是我認爲它影響了我現在看到的每個廣告。

When the TV channel first heard the news, they thought it was going to be a mind-blowing scandal.

當電視頻道第一次聽到這個消息時，他們認爲這將是一個令人吃驚的醜聞。

Majestic: having impressive elegance, beauty, and greatness

宏偉的：有着令人難以忘懷的優雅、美麗、偉大

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The Himalaya mountains are majestic, which is why so many people want to climb them even though they are so tough to climb.

喜馬拉雅山脈雄偉壯觀，這就是爲什麼即使它難以征服，但仍然有那麼多人想攀登它們。

Amazing meaning: inspiring fear, or tinges of fear mixed with admiration

令人驚訝的含義：激發恐懼，或微微的恐懼混合着欽佩之感

This category of words means something slightly different from those other words above. This set of words has a more negative meaning, more associated with fear and unhappiness.

這類詞的意思與上面的其他詞略微不同。這組詞有一個更消極的意思，更多的是與恐懼與不幸福有關。

However, most of these words can mean something that causes fear, but many times they also describe something that is so magnificent, so great, that the first reaction of some people is to fear it.

然而，這些詞語中的大多數可以表示引起恐懼的東西，但是很多時候，它們也描述一些非常宏偉、非常偉大的東西，以至於有些人的第一反應就是害怕它。

These words vary more in definition, so make sure you use the correct word depending on how you feel!

這些詞在定義上有所不同，所以請確保你根據你的感受來使用正確的單詞。

Dreadful: causing a feeling of sadness, fear, and disapproval

可怕的：引起一種悲傷、恐懼和反對的情緒

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The goalie’s performance in the championship game was dreadful, so the opposite team kept scoring goals and eventually won the game.

這位守門員在錦標賽中的表現很糟糕，所以對方球隊不斷進球，最終贏得了比賽。

I will never stay in that hotel again, because my experience was absolutely dreadful!

我再也不會呆在那家酒店了，因爲我的經歷太糟糕透了！

Formidable: causing a feeling of fear and begrudging respect (respect that you cannot help but feel) because of the person or thing’s large size, power, skill, etc.

令人生畏的：由於人或物的大小、力量、技能等原因，引起一種恐懼感和令人敬畏的尊重（你無法不感到的尊重）。

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Even though Fiora was a formidable opponent and scared me before the match, I was able to beat her and feel very accomplished!

雖然菲奧娜是一個強大到令人害怕的對手，在比賽前把我嚇壞了，但我還是打敗了她，我感覺很有成就感！

I did not expect the Great Wall of China to be so large, but it was so formidable when I climbed up to it and looked out into the forest, where I could see the Wall extending farther than I could see!

我沒想到中國的長城會這麼大，但當我爬上長城，向森林裏望去，看到長城延伸得比我能看到的還遠，那真是太可怕了！

Frightening: something that causes intense fear in someone else

可怕的：引起別人強烈恐懼的東西

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The storm was frightening because the lightning and thunder went on for hours.

暴風雨很可怕，因爲閃電和雷聲持續了好幾個小時。

I have never been in a more frightening situation, and hope that I will never have to be again.

我從未經歷過比這更可怕的情況，希望我再也不會這樣了。

Intimidating: inspiring fear or awe, especially when trying to make someone do something

恐嚇威脅的：激起恐懼或敬畏的，尤指試圖使某人做某事時

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When you meet Alex in person, she seems like a fantastic person, but when you hear about all her accomplishments, she can be intimidating!

當你和亞歷克斯見面時，她看起來像個了不起的人，但當你聽說她的所有成就時，她可能很嚇人！

Overwhelming: causing a feeling of extreme emotion, often enough to feel that it is too much

無法抵抗的：引起極端情緒的感覺，這感覺經常充足到過剩。

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The joy that I felt upon winning my first gold medal was so overwhelming that I broke down in happy tears when I received it.

當我贏得第一枚金牌時，我感到難以抑制的喜悅。所以當我收到金牌時，我高興得流淚了。

The senator received overwhelming support when he announced a new bill to reform health care in the country.

參議員宣佈了一項改革該國醫療保健的法案，得到了壓倒性的支持。

Terrifying: causing great fear; even though terrifying is often use as a descriptor of something bad, it can also describe something that is so incredible that people begin to fear it. The following examples are sentences which use terrifying to mean something that is amazing.

恐怖的：引起巨大的恐懼；儘管恐怖經常被用作壞事的描述，它也可以描述一些令人難以置信的事情，以至於人們開始害怕它。下面的例子是用恐怖來表示令人驚奇的句子。

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The pace of development and progress in China for the past few years has been terrifying for the rest of the world.

過去幾年，中國的發展和進步速度令世界其他國家驚歎不已。

The new startup swooped in at a terrifying speed and drew away all the customers, leaving the other companies in the dust.

新的創業公司以驚人的速度發展起來，吸引了所有的客戶，讓其他公司陷入了困境。

The next time that you see something that amazes you, try to use some of these words! They can help broaden your vocabulary and describe what you are feeling more accurately.

下次當你看到一些令你吃驚的事物時，試着用這些詞來表達！它們可以幫助你擴大詞彙量，更加準確地描述你的感受。