It's potential for good or evil, now and in the years of our lives, smothers exaltations and converts vanity to prayer. 在现在和我们过去的生活中,它都是一柄双刃剑,会使人越来越窒息、也会使人由空虚变得有信仰。
I crave for mental exaltation. 我追求精神上的兴奋。
The news filled us with exaltation. 这消息使我们欣喜万分。
exaltation
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a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
<noun.state> listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture
the location of a planet in the zodiac at which it is believed to exert its maximum influence
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a flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight overhead)
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the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god)
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Exaltation \Ex`al*ta"tion\, n. [L. exaltatio: cf. F.exaltation.] 1. The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.
Wondering at my flight, and change To this high exaltation. --Milton.
2. (Alchem.) The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.
3. (Astrol.) That place of a planet in the zodiac in which it was supposed to exert its strongest influence.
4. (Med.) An abnormal sense of personal well-being, power, or importance, -- a symptom observed in various forms of insanity. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The abuse of precedents is another sad dimension in the sorry tale of executive exaltation still unfolding.