核心畫面

One way to picture it: a light so strong that your eyes cannot take it in — you blink, look away, and for a moment you simply cannot see straight.

光太強,強到眼睛接不住。你迎面看過去,瞳孔一縮,本能地閉眼或別過頭,睜開之後眼前還浮著一片白。dazzling 說的更多收起光太強,強到眼睛接不住。你迎面看過去,瞳孔一縮,本能地閉眼或別過頭,睜開之後眼前還浮著一片白。dazzling 說的就是這個「強到讓人招架不住」的瞬間——重點不在光本身多美,而在你的眼睛被壓過去、暫時失去正常運作的那種感覺。

Two branches

強到睜不開眼的光

最字面的那一層:光真的打在眼睛上。

blindingly bright · adjective · C2

So bright that it hurts your eyes and you cannot look at it, or cannot see well for a short time.

刺眼的

耀眼到令人屏息的表現與外表

把眼睛被強光壓過去的經驗,整個搬到心理上——太出色、太美,你也是同樣地招架不住。

extremely impressive · adjective · C2

Extremely impressive or attractive, used when someone does something very well or looks very beautiful.

耀眼的

原始詞典資料4 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。

dazzlingadj/ˈdæz.l̩.ɪŋ/

  • 1

    Extremely bright, especially so as to blind the eyes temporarily; bright to the degree that dazzles.

    • [H]is ſupercilious glances grevv humbled, yea, his dazeling ſplendor (eclipſt in the ſetting [i.e., death] of his Maſter) becomes quickly darkned: […]
    • There is something in intense suffering that seeks concealment, something that is fain to belie itself. In Cooper's novel of the "Bravo," Jacques conceals himself and his boat, by lying where the moonlight fell dazzling on the water. We do the same with any great despair, we shroud it in a glittering atmosphere of smiles and jests; but the smiles are sneers, and the jests are sarcasms.
  • 2

    Very brilliant or splendid in display; that dazzles the mind of the observer.

    • Oakland native [Andre] Ward is now unbeaten in 25 fights and can now claim to be one of the top few pound-for-pound fighters on the planet after a technically dazzling display.

dazzlingnoun/ˈdæz.l̩.ɪŋ/

  • 1

    The action of the verb to dazzle; dazzlement

    • Our organization secures the greatest amount of good unbalanced by accomplished evil of any known system, a good which resembles the sober hue of massive gold, rather than the splendid dazzlings of a baser metal.

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。