agog

• adj.興奮する；強い関心を持つ
• adv.熱心に；熱心に

語源は不吉。

agog

agog: [15] Agog probably comes from Old French gogue ‘merriment’. It was used in the phrase en gogue, meaning ‘enjoying oneself’ (Randle Cotgrave, in his Dictionarie of the French and English tongues 1611, defines estre en ses gogues as ‘to be frolicke, lustie, lively, wanton, gamesome, all-a-hoit, in a pleasant humour; in a veine of mirth, or in a merrie mood’), and this was rendered into English as agog, with the substitution of the prefix a- (as in asleep) for en and the meaning toned down a bit to ‘eager’.

It is not clear where gogue came from (it may perhaps be imitative of noisy merrymaking), but later in its career it seems to have metamorphosed into go-go, either through reduplication of its first syllable (gogue had two syllables) or through assimilation of the second syllable to the first: hence the French phrase à go-go ‘joyfully’, and hence too English go-go dancers.

agog (adj., adv.)

"in a state of desire; in a state of imagination; heated with the notion of some enjoyment; longing" [Johnson], c. 1400, perhaps from Old French en gogues "in jest, good humor, joyfulness," from gogue "fun," which is of unknown origin.

1. The children were all agog to hear the story.

子供たちはこの話を聞きたいと切望している。

2.The children were all agog to see their presents.

子供たちは彼らへの贈り物を見ようと興奮している。

3.The city was agog with rumours last night that the two had been executed.

あの二人が処刑されたという噂は昨夜町中を騒がせた。

4.The prospect of Christmas left the children agog .

クリスマスへの憧れに子供たちは興奮している

5.All London was agog to see the two "parents "of radium.

ロンドンはラジウム2人の「両親」に会いたいと町中で渇望している。