喜樂美語

核心畫面

A magnet and a pin: one thing pulls, the other moves toward it. That pull is the thread through the whole word. Point it between two people and it is liking; point it at a place and it is what draws the crowds; name the pulling part itself and it is the selling point. The physical force is the plainest picture, though in daily life the other three come up far more often.

可以想成：磁鐵和迴紋針——一邊在拉，另一邊被拉過去。這股「拉力」貫穿整個字。放在兩個人之間，就是好感；放在一個地方上…更多收起可以想成：磁鐵和迴紋針——一邊在拉，另一邊被拉過去。這股「拉力」貫穿整個字。放在兩個人之間，就是好感；放在一個地方上，就是把人潮拉過去的東西；單獨指出「拉的是哪一點」，就成了賣點。物理上的那股力量是最直白的畫面，不過日常生活中，另外三種用法出現得頻繁得多。

From the picture

人被人吸引

拉力發生在兩個人之間：你會想靠近對方、想多待一會兒。中文的「被吸引」跟英文用的是同一個比喻。

romantic attraction · noun · B1

a feeling of liking someone and wanting to be near them.

好感

把人拉過去的東西

拉的一端從人換成事物：一個地方、一項特點在把人拉過來。這時候鏡頭可以停在「整個地方」，也可以停在「吸引人的那一點」。

appeal · noun · B1

the part of something that makes people like it or want it.

吸引人之處

Also in this word

physical pulling force · noun · B1

a force that pulls things toward each other or holds them together.

引力

原始詞典資料7 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。

attractionnoun/əˈtɹækʃn̩/

  • 1

    The tendency to attract.

    • The Moon is held in its orbit by the attraction of the Earth's gravity.
  • 2

    The tendency to attract.

    • I can't resist his attraction.
  • 3

    The tendency to attract.

    • The new mall should be a major attraction.
    • Star Tours is a very cool Disney World attraction.
  • 4

    board-gameschessgamesThe tendency to attract.

  • 5

    The feeling of being attracted (to something), that is, being drawn toward it; a desire to be near or involved (in something).

    • I kept returning there because I felt a strange attraction towards the place.
    • Our attraction to sugar makes it hard to stop eating it.
  • 6

    The feeling of being attracted (to something), that is, being drawn toward it; a desire to be near or involved (in something).

    • I've always had an attraction to blondes.
    • I don't think my husband has ever acted on any of his attractions.
  • 7

    human-scienceslinguisticssciencesAn error in language production that incorrectly extends a feature from one word in a sentence to another, e.g. when a verb agrees with a noun other than its subject.

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。