摘要：“ardent”源自中古英语“ardant”，来自古法语“ardant”（意为“燃烧的”），进一步追溯到拉丁语“ardens”（ardentis的现在分词，意为“燃烧、炽热”），词根为“ardere”（燃烧）。英语中，“ardent”在14世纪进入使用，最初指
ardent
[ARDENT]
英 ['ɑːdnt] 美 ['ɑːrdnt]
adj.热心的；激烈的；热情的
◉词源
“ardent”源自中古英语“ardant”，来自古法语“ardant”（意为“燃烧的”），进一步追溯到拉丁语“ardens”（ardentis的现在分词，意为“燃烧、炽热”），词根为“ardere”（燃烧）。英语中，“ardent”在14世纪进入使用，最初指“炽热的”，后引申为“热情的、热烈的”。
◉外刊例句
① 《The New York Times》 (2024年3月19日)
She was an ardent supporter of the environmental movement
她是环保运动的热烈支持者。
② 《The Guardian》 (2023年11月5日)
His ardent defense of free speech sparked heated debates.
他对言论自由的热烈辩护引发了激烈争论。
◉经典名著
《简·爱》（Jane Eyre） by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
I liked to read what they liked to read: what they enjoyed, delighted me; what they approved, I reverenced, and in their ardent feelings I found a response
我喜欢读他们喜欢读的书：他们喜欢的令我愉悦，他们认可的我尊敬，他们的热烈情感在我心中引起共鸣。
◉Usage Examples
(1) Some industrialists are at heart ardent reformers.
(2) The satisfaction derived from this act was all that the most ardent moralist could have desired.
(3) An ardent outset may be followed by declension.
(1) 有些企业家实际上都是热心的改革家。
(2) 这个行动使自己得到了连最热心的慈善家都希冀得到的满足。
(3) 热情的开端可能继之以冷漠。
◉Usage Notes
If you are ardent, you are passionate about something. A pop star's ardent admirers might go so crazy at his concert that they faint from excitement.
Ardent is most often used to modify words like supporter, fan, advocate, admirer, and defender — but also opponent. Although you can either ardently support or oppose something, support is by far the more common use. The word literally means "burning" or "glowing" — it's from Latin ardere, "to burn." In poetic use, the word is sometimes used to mean "glowing," as Alexander Pope did in his 1718 translation of Homer's Iliad: "From rank to rank she darts her ardent eyes."
◉柯林斯词典
1. [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]热情的；热烈的；激动的 Ardent is used to describe someone who has extremely strong feelings about something or someone. [usu ADJ n]
① He's been one of the most ardent supporters of the administration's policy.
他一向是政府政策最热情的支持者之一。
② ...an ardent opponent of the Vietnam War.
越南战争的强烈反对者
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③ Why had Hilton defended him so ardently?...
为什么希尔顿如此激动地为他辩护呢？
④ His reports are often ardently pro-Russian.
他的报告常常是力挺俄罗斯的。
来源：学无用的英语