but they did not go out of their way to court such excitement.
但是，他们并非故意寻求这种刺激，
新概念英语第四册 Lesson 3 Matterhorn man

📚 句中词汇解析

从本句中提取的重要词汇

excitement [ɪk'saɪtmənt] 词频2 词根: cite
n. 兴奋，激动;令人兴奋的事;刺激，振奋;
💡 ex加强+cite唤起+ment表名词→刺激,激动,兴奋;令人兴奋的事
"The excitement at the start of a race can really get the adrenalin flowing ."
起跑时的激动确实能使人热血沸腾。
近义：furore, anxiety, anxiousness, heat, impetuosity, apprehension 反义：imperturbability, pax, peace, peacefulness, quiet, quietness
court [kɔrt] 词频1
n. 法院，法庭;院子，天井;宫廷;网球场; vt. 招致;设法获得;向…献殷勤;追求; vi. 求爱，求婚;寻求;
💡 法庭，宫庭，朝庭中需要奉承与讨好，以求得宠幸 网友： 补充：
"The court absolved him of all responsibility for the accident."
法院宣告他对该事故不负任何责任。
近义：romance, woo, address, coo, enamor, enamour 反义：loathe, recant, repel, snub, disaffirm, disavow

📚 更多「新概念英语第四册」例句

It's as if they were, in some sense, cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures.
从某种意义上讲，他们似乎是宇宙人，同我们这些凡夫俗子形成了强烈而鲜明的对照。
An individual human existence should be like a river----
个人的存在应该像一条河流，
This is not easy, and may require two porpoises working together.
这并非易事，可能需要两只海豚合伙干才行。
and near its lower reaches there is a long tailing-off which is almost certainly the result of material transported out to deep water after being eroded from the continental masses.
在这个地带的低处是很长的一段尾沙地段，基本上可以断定这个地段是大陆块体上侵蚀下来的物质被水冲到深水处形成的。
they aroused great interest at the time, they had important theoretical consequences,
这些观察在当时引起了人们极大的兴趣，具有重要的理论意义，
We could, at one time, repair ourselves----well enough, at least,
而我们人，在一定时间内是可以自行修复的，