Emotions & Feelings

Phrasal verbs for expressing emotional states

简介

情感是人类经验的核心，而短语动词提供了描述情感的有力方式。当某人激动到"break down（崩溃大哭）"，或者终于"cheer up（振作起来）"的时候，这些两个词的组合捕捉到了单个词根本无法表达的情感转变。

这一章我们来探索涵盖整个情感光谱的短语动词——从绝望的深渊到快乐的巅峰。你会学到如何像母语者一样自然地描述情绪的积累、释放和恢复。

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本章全部短语动词（66）

• break down To lose emotional control and start crying
• cheer up To become happier or make someone happier
• calm down To become less agitated or to make someone less upset
• open up To share feelings or personal information
• bottle up To suppress emotions and not express them
• lash out To suddenly attack verbally or physically
• lighten up To become less serious or stop being so uptight
• freak out To panic or become extremely upset or excited
• wind up To make someone angry or annoyed (British)
• snap out of To suddenly stop being in a bad mood or daze
• build up To gradually increase in intensity (of emotions)
• let down To disappoint someone
• get over To recover from an emotional experience
• blow up To suddenly become very angry
• chill out To relax and calm down
• tear up To begin to cry, eyes filling with tears
• perk up To become more cheerful or lively
• work up To gradually develop a strong emotion
• crack up To laugh uncontrollably
• choke up To become too emotional to speak
• light up To become visibly happy or excited
• take out on To direct anger at someone unfairly
• brighten up To become happier; to make more cheerful
• well up To rise to the surface (tears or emotions)
• warm to To begin to like someone or something
• put off To cause someone to dislike something
• key up To make nervous or excited
• dwell on To think about something too much
• melt down To lose emotional control completely
• look forward to To anticipate with pleasure
• burst out To suddenly express emotion
• flip out To suddenly become very angry or upset
• cheer on To encourage with shouts
• fire up To excite or motivate
• stir up To provoke emotions or trouble
• mellow out To become calm
• simmer down To calm from anger
• get down To depress
• get to To affect emotionally
• weigh down To burden emotionally
• cry out To express pain vocally
• pour out To express fully
• keep in To not express
• psych up To prepare mentally
• pump up To excite
• fly off To become angry suddenly
• go off To become angry
• snap at To speak angrily
• take out To release frustration
• cool off To calm down after anger
• shake off To get rid of a feeling
• laugh off To dismiss with humour
• put on To fake emotion
• drag down To make depressed
• beat down To demoralize
• cut up To upset deeply
• eat up To consume with emotion
• eat away To erode emotionally
• gnaw at To worry persistently
• prey on To cause ongoing worry
• hang over To weigh on mind
• brood over To dwell unhappily
• mope around To be depressed
• pine for To long for
• ache for To yearn for
• long for To desire deeply