- 1引誘。把人拉去壞事，也會說「誘惑」；廣告把人吸引進店，語氣較輕，仍是這個英文。
To entice someone is to pull them toward doing something or going somewhere by offering what they want — money, food, a nicer life, a secret, a beautiful thing. You are not forcing them; you are making the path look worth taking. It can be small and everyday (a smell that entices you into a bakery) or serious (to entice someone into a trap). To entice a child, in news and law, is a dark, criminal use — not a cute one. The word is a little more formal than “,” and it often carries a slight warning: the offer may not be as kind as it looks. Though actually, shops and ads use it quite for harmless pulling-in.
From the word’s history
From Old French enticier 'to stir up', from Vulgar Latin *intitiāre 'set on fire', from titiō 'firebrand'.
源自古法文 enticier「煽動」，原是點火，來自拉丁 titiō「火把」。
組成From Middle English enticen, from Old French enticier (“to stir up or excite”), from a later Latin word meaning “I set on fire,” from in- + titiō (a firebrand, a burning stick). The old picture is lighting a fire in someone — stirring them up.
同家族的字
- enticementthe noun — the act or the offer that pulls you
- enticingthe adjective — describing something that pulls you in
原始詞典資料1 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。
enticeverb/ɪnˈtaɪs/
- 1
To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.
- I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.
- Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。