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Use the adjective zealous as a way to describe eagerness or enthusiastic activity. If you are too zealous in your efforts to decorate the house with Christmas lights, you might cause a power outage for the whole neighborhood.
Zealous is the adjective for the noun zeal, “eager partisanship”; the latter has a long e, but zealous has a short one: ZEL-uhs. It can have a slightly negative connotation, and people are sometimes described as overzealous, meaning they try too hard. Zealous rhymes with jealous (and in fact they both derive from the same Greek word), but don't confuse them: a jealous person might be resentful of someone who makes zealous efforts to achieve success.
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词根: zeal
=ardor,表示”热心”
adj.
jealous [of]妒忌的;猜疑的,警惕的jeal=zeal热心+ous……的→对什么表示热心而无法得到,从而嫉妒
zealous 热心的,热情的zeal热心+ous表形容词→adj.热心的,热情的
n.
zeal 热心,热忱,热情zeal热心→n.热心,热忱,热情
zealot 狂热分子,热心者zeal热心+ot人→n.狂热分子,热心者
同义词辨析
这些形容词均有”热心的，热诚的”之意。
- enthusiastic： 指对参与某项活动或对感兴趣的计划或决定表现出的毫无保留的热切心情。
- intent： 指集中精力从事正在进行的活动，也可指专心寻求自己感兴趣的东西。
- zealous： 指对所从事的事表现出的高度热情和积极性。
同义词
impassioned / ardent / dogged / forceful / fanatical / determined / devoted / feverish / rabid / radical / earnest / tenacious / eager / energetic / pious / enthusiastic / perfervid / vehement / fervent / fervid / excited / persistent / passionate / intense / vigorous