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- mass noun a feeling of intense pleasure or joy狂喜; 兴高采烈, 欢天喜地：
Leonora listened with rapture.
莉奥诺拉欣喜若狂地听着。
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raptures
expressions of intense pleasure or enthusiasm about something狂喜; 欢呼：the tabloids went into raptures about her.
各大小报对她进行了疯狂的报道。
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the Rapture
N. Amer. (according to some millenarian teaching) the transporting of believers to heaven at the second coming of Christ〈北美〉（依据千年教义）（基督再临时信徒的）被提升天。
with obj.(一般作be raptured)
- N. Amer. (according to some millenarian teaching) transport (a believer) from earth to heaven at the second coming of Christ〈北美〉（依据千年教义）（基督再临时）提送（信徒）升天。
词源
late 16th cent. (in the sense seizing and carrying off)： from obsolete French, or from medieval Latin raptura 'seizing', partly influenced by RAPT.