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To enthral someone is to hold their attention so completely that they listen or watch with great care — they almost forget the room around them. It is a strong, slightly literary verb; everyday talk might say “it really grabbed me” or “I couldn’t look away.” Though actually, the oldest meaning was harsher: to make someone a thrall, a kind of slave. That old sense is now rare except in history or very high style. Today’s common meaning is fascination, not chains. British spelling is enthral (one l in the base form); American spelling is enthrall. You enthral a person, or an audience; you do not usually enthral a thing.
使著迷、迷住(英式拼法;美式作 enthrall)
組成en- (to make into) + thrall (an old word for a slave, or a person under someone else’s power). The “make a slave” picture later softened into “hold someone’s mind.”
同家族的字
- thrallthe old noun inside it — a slave, or a state of being under someone else’s power
原始詞典資料1 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。
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。