enthusiasm

• n. 熱意、熱意、暖かさ

enthuse、熱意から。

enthusiasm

enthusiasm: [17] Enthusiasm has had a chequered semantic history. Like giddiness, it meant originally ‘state of being inspired by a god’. It comes ultimately from Greek énthous or éntheos ‘possessed, inspired’, a compound formed from the prefix en- ‘in’ and theós ‘god’ (as in English theology). From this in turn was derived the verb enthousiázein ‘be inspired’ and the noun enthousiasmós, which passed into English via Latin or French, still with the sense ‘divine inspiration’ (‘Doth he think they knew it by enthusiasm or revelation from heaven?’ Richard Baxter, Infants’ church membership and baptism 1651).

In the stern climate of Puritanism, however, divine inspiration was not something to be encouraged, and as the 17th century progressed enthusiasm took on derogatory connotations of ‘excessive religious emotion’. The modern approbatory meaning, ‘eagerness’, had its beginnings at the start of the 18th century, and by the early 19th century had ousted the deprecatory sense from leading place.
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enthusiasm (n.)

c. 1600, from Middle French enthousiasme (16c.) and directly from Late Latin enthusiasmus, from Greek enthousiasmos "divine inspiration, enthusiasm (produced by certain kinds of music, etc.)," from enthousiazein "be inspired or possessed by a god, be rapt, be in ecstasy," from entheos "divinely inspired, possessed by a god," from en "in" (see en- (2)) + theos "god" (see theo-). Acquired a derogatory sense of "excessive religious emotion through the conceit of special revelation from God" (1650s) under the Puritans; generalized meaning "fervor, zeal" (the main modern sense) is first recorded 1716.

1. She radiates an infectious enthusiasm for everything she does.

彼女は何をするにも非常に感染力のある情熱に満ちている。

2.He brought to the job not just considerable experience but passionate enthusiasm .

彼はこの仕事に多くの経験をもたらしただけでなく、大きな情熱を注いだ。

3.She wrinkled her nose，piqued by his total lack of enthusiasm .

彼女は鼻をしわにして、彼の情熱がないことを不快に思った。

4.Both his grandfathers were fired with an enthusiasm for public speaking.

彼の祖父と祖父は演説に熱中している。

5.I 'm depressed by the bovine enthusiasm of the crowd 's response.

人ごみの情熱のない鈍感な反応に落胆した。