英文词源
- rapt (adj.)
- late 14c., "carried away in an ecstatic trance," from Latin raptus, past participle of rapere "seize, carry off" (see rape (v.)). A figurative sense, the notion is of "carried up into Heaven (bodily or in a dream)," as in a saint's vision. Latin literal sense of "carried away" was in English from 1550s. In 15c.-17c. the word also sometimes could mean "raped." Sense of "engrossed" first recorded c. 1500. As a past participle adjective, in English it spawned the back-formed verb rap "to affect with rapture," which was common c. 1600-1750.
中文词源
-rapt-抓 → 整个心神被抓住
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：rapt 词源，rapt 含义。
来自拉丁语 rapere,抓住，抓取，词源同 rob,rip.-t,过去分词格。比喻用法。
rapt：全神贯注的；出神的
近义词absorbed（全神贯注的）字面义是“被吸住”，preoccupied（出神的）根义是“被抓住”；注意力被牢牢吸引、抓住，即“全神贯注”；相似地，rapt的本义为“夺取”，当精神被某一事物夺取而占有，即为“出神”。rapid（迅速的），夺取是快速的动作。
