(verb.) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; 'Music can uplift your spirits'.
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雙語例句
First, I smiled to myself and felt elate; but this fierce pleasure subsided in me as fast as did the accelerated throb of my pulses. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.簡·愛.
In the gallery he was as elate as a king. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
When elate on a subject, he could not avoid talking about it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Don't let your sober face elate you, however; you don't know what it may come to. 查爾斯·狄更斯.雙城記.
She knows it, and is elate with the consciousness--glad that her money, example, and influence have really, substantially, benefited those around her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
And now my heart is elate because I find you perfect--almost; kind, clever, nice. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
In short, he seemed elate as any midden-cock on pattens. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
I neither was crushed nor elated by her lands and gold; I thought not of them, cared not for them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
He acted very elated now. 歐內斯特·海明威.永別了,武器.
You elated my pride beyond all the bounds of humility; you blessed me with more than human happiness, but to destroy my peace for ever! 哈里特·威爾遜.哈里特·威爾遜回憶錄.
But you mustn't fancy,' cried the gentleman, quite elated by coming so happily to his point. 查爾斯·狄更斯.艱難時事.
Man walked forth, elated with the scene; and all was brightness and splendour. 查爾斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外傳.
The sick man smiled also, elated. 戴維·赫伯特·勞倫斯.戀愛中的女人.
I knew you would be,' cried Fagin, elated by the success of his proposal. 查爾斯·狄更斯.霧都孤兒.