Mirth

释义 Definition

mirth 名词，意为"欢笑、欢乐、高兴"，尤指伴随着笑声的愉快心情。它强调的是一种外在表现出来的快乐，通常与笑声和欢闹联系在一起。

发音 Pronunciation

/mɜːrθ/

词源 Etymology

mirth 源自古英语 myrgþ，意为"愉快、欢乐"，与古英语形容词 myrge（愉快的）同根，后者演变为现代英语中的 merry（快乐的）。该词根可追溯至原始日耳曼语 *murgitha-*，表达短暂而强烈的快乐之情。在中古英语时期逐渐固定为今天的拼写形式。

例句 Examples

The children's mirth filled the entire house with warmth.
孩子们的欢笑声让整个房子充满了温暖。

Despite the gravity of the occasion, a ripple of mirth passed through the audience when the speaker stumbled over his words.
尽管场合庄重严肃，当演讲者说话结巴时，观众中还是掠过一阵忍俊不禁的笑声。

文学作品引用 Literary References

莎士比亚在《仲夏夜之梦》(A Midsummer Night's Dream) 中多次使用 mirth 来描绘节日般的欢乐气氛："The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact... and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, that if it would but apprehend some joy, it comprehends some bringer of that mirth."
伊迪丝·华顿 (Edith Wharton) 的小说《欢乐之家》(The House of Mirth, 1905) 以此词为书名，讽刺性地探讨了纽约上层社会表面欢乐下的空虚与悲剧。
查尔斯·狄更斯在《圣诞颂歌》(A Christmas Carol) 中用 mirth 描绘圣诞节的欢庆场景，与主人公斯克鲁奇的冷漠形成鲜明对比。