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Перевод: astonish
[глагол] удивлять; изумлять
Тезаурус:
- He had had the playwright in his power, and been tempted to astonish the court and the television audiences by sucking him dry on the stand.
- He was even able to astonish the Sergeant with some of his discoveries.
- "Gloves, cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves - they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness still, it's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art."
- But then Complicite, in the seven years I have been watching them, have never lost their power to astonish.
- An ardent Anglophile, Tritsis used frequently to astonish British journalists with the breadth of his knowledge about Westminster, asking them if they thought Enoch Powell or Tony Benn the more radical figure.
- "You astonish me.
- Structures are settled, electricity enlivens, apertures astonish.
- Karen Parsons never ceased to astonish me.
- The snow in June was a revelation which seemed to astonish and dismay some girls in bikini-tops with a cold-box full of beer and a shoulder bag full of Jackie Collins novels, who had clearly hoped to picnic at the top.
- But Miss Blagden, whom I met by chance yesterday, is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them.
- In fact the chronicle succeeds in having its cake and eating it, all the way back to the stir caused by Nicholas Stavrogin's arrival in "our town", when it is recorded among other things that he seemed to know a lot - "But of course it didn't take much knowledge to astonish us".
- Why, Mamma, I could astonish you with a great many words you never heard in your life.
- But the extent of his magnanimity cannot fail to astonish, and indeed it is not lost on Jacob.
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