amaze

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amaze

amaze: [OE] Old English āmasian meant ‘stupefy’ or ‘stun’, with perhaps some reminiscences of an original sense ‘stun by hitting on the head’ still adhering to it. Some apparently related forms in Scandinavian languages, such as Swedish masa ‘be sluggish’ and Norwegian dialect masast ‘become unconscious’, suggest that it may originally have been borrowed from Old Norse.

The modern sense ‘astonish’ did not develop until the end of the 16th century; Shakespeare was one of its earliest exponents: ‘Crystal eyes, whose full perfection all the world amazes’, Venus and Adonis 1592. By the end of the 13th century both the verb and its related noun had developed a form without the initial a-, and in the late 14th century the word – maze – had begun to be applied to a deliberately confusing structure.
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amaze (v.)

early 13c., amasian "stupefy, make crazy," from a-, probably used here as an intensive prefix, + -masian, related to maze (q.v.). Sense of "overwhelm with wonder" is from 1580s. Related: Amazed; amazing.

1. Neil 's ability to utter banalities never ceased to amaze me.

毎回驚いていますが、ニールはどうしてこんなに無味乾燥なものを言うことができますか。

2.He never ceases to amaze me.

彼はいつも私に驚喜してくれます。

3.He stood in amaze at the sight.

彼はその光景を見て、呆然と立っていた。

4.The Riverside Res-taurant promises a variety of food that never ceases to amaze ！

浜河飯店はいつも品数が多く、驚くべき食べ物を提供している。

5.The arrogance and selfishness of different interest groups never ceases to amaze me.

異なる利益集団の傲慢さとエゴにはいつも驚かされます。