[每日] disconcert (v) 使倉皇失措
Word of the Day (Tuesday September 16, 2008)
disconcert \dis-kuhn-SURT\, transitive verb:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/264Og
1. To disturb the composure of.
2. To throw into disorder or confusion; as, "the emperor
disconcerted the plans of his enemy."
In steering a small boat before a heavy gale, don't look back --
it may disconcert you.
-- Frank Arthur Worsley, Shackleton's Boat Journey
I wander away, disconcerted by this sudden sense of having been
cut short, frozen in mid-flow.
-- Paul Golding, The Abomination
They were disconcerted each time they saw him change from one
evening to the next from a dramatic role to a comic one, from the
part of a good man to that of the villain, as if he were thereby
revealing some incomprehensible mutability in his being; but every
time, after just a few lines, they would become wholly engrossed
in the new fiction, convincing themselves that this was just how
he was.
-- Paola Capriolo, The Woman Watching
Disconcert is derived from Old French desconcerter, from des-,
"dis-" + concerter, from Old Italian concertare, "to act together,
to agree."
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