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If something is alluring, it has that mysterious, , or desirable pull. An alluring smile, an alluring offer, an alluring night market: each one makes you want to come closer. This is the everyday member of the family; people use the adjective far more than they use as a noun. It is , but not always innocent — alluring can hint that the pull is a little dangerous, or that you might regret giving in. It is also the -ing form of the verb . As a noun, “the alluring of customers” is possible but rare and rather stiff.
迷人的、有魅力的
組成allure + -ing.
同家族的字
- allurethe stem: the pull itself
- allurementthe more formal noun from the same stem
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
alluringadj/əˈlʊɹɪŋ/
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Having the power to allure.
- Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
alluringnoun/əˈlʊɹɪŋ/
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The act or habit of enticing or attracting in order to seek a benefit or advantage.
- Was this poor breast, from Love's allurings free, / Cruel to all, and gentle unto thee ?
- For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。