- 1迷住；深深吸引
To captivate someone is to attract them so strongly that their attention stays with you — as if you had caught them, but only in feeling. A story can captivate an audience; a city can captivate a visitor; a person you like can captivate you. It is warmer and more about charm than capture, which is about taking someone by force. The “caught” idea is only a picture in the mind. It is a somewhat , praising word. In casual speech, people more often say “I couldn’t stop watching” or “it really grabbed me.” You will meet captivate in reviews, speeches, and school essays. Though actually, it is almost always a pleasant hold: if a film only scared you, or is more usual than captivate.
組成From captive + -ate: “to make like a captive,” but in feeling, not in a prison. The Latin behind it is captīvus, “prisoner,” from capiō, “to seize.”
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
captivateverb詞源 1/ˈkæptɪveɪt/
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obsoleteTo make (a person, an animal, etc.) a captive; to take prisoner; to capture, to subdue.
- Hovv ill-beſeeming is it in thy Sex, / To triumph like an Amazonian Trull, / Vpon their VVoes, vvhom Fortune captiuates?
- Dabuh is the name of a ſimple and baſe creature like a VVolfe, ſaue that his legges and feete are like to a mans: ſo fooliſh, that vvith a ſong, & a Taber, they vvhich knovv his haunt vvill bring him out of his denne, and captiue his eares vvith their muſicke, vvhile another captiuateth his legges vvith a Rope.
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obsoleteTo capture or control (the mind, etc.); to subdue, to subjugate.
- Hee hath no skill in Rhetoricke, nor can hee vvith a preface fore-ſtall and captivate the Gentle Readers good vvill: nor careth he greatly to knovve it.
- They that are vviſe, had rather haue their iudgements at libertie in differences of readings, then to be captiuated to one, vvhen it may be the other.
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To attract and hold (someone's) attention and interest; to charm, to entrance, to fascinate, to enchain.
- Hir ſlippers rauyſhed his eyes, hir bewtye captyuated his mynde, with the swerde ſmote ſhe of his neck.
- [L]oe thus my ſtrength is tride. / And this I do to captiuate the eye, / Of the faire breeder that is ſtanding by.
captivateadj詞源 2/ˈkæptɪvət/
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obsoleteMade captive; taken prisoner; captured, subdued.
- Tuſh, vvomen haue bene captiuate ere novv.
- VVhat is Gods houſe in Caſtle pent, but like that Arke of bliſſe / In Balaims temple Captivate? Ech place a priſon is.
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