- 1aB1
/əˈmjuːzɪŋ/
Funny and enjoyable — an amusing person, story, or situation makes you smile or laugh, and it is often gently funny rather than extremely funny.
好笑的；有趣的
比較級 more amusing最高級 most amusing
核心畫面
Picture a small smile spreading, not a burst of laughter. Something has caught your attention in a light, pleasant way and made the moment enjoyable — the size of the reaction is a smile, sometimes a quiet laugh.
可以想成嘴角被輕輕勾起來的那一下，而不是笑到不行。有個東西以輕鬆、討人喜歡的方式抓住你的注意力，讓這段時間變得好過—…更多收起
可以想成嘴角被輕輕勾起來的那一下，而不是笑到不行。有個東西以輕鬆、討人喜歡的方式抓住你的注意力，讓這段時間變得好過——反應的大小大概就是一個微笑，頂多一聲短短的笑。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。
amusingadj/əˈmjuːzɪŋ/
- 1
Entertaining.
- The film has some amusing moments, but it is unlikely to make you laugh out loud.
- We don’t get amusinger as we get older, we grow prosy and repeat ourselves and talk about our complaints and selfish grievances: but our old friends bear up with our dullness for old times’ sake; […]
- 2
Funny, hilarious.
- An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter.
- [T]hey’d had to call it something – i.e. something that differentiated this occasion from others where they might just go for a pint or a curry. So beer & sausages had somehow happily invented itself, […] The best thing, of course, the amusingest thing, was that no one ever brought beer and Jas had only actually done sausages once.
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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。