人心裡那股著迷
核心本身：從被扣住的那個人身上看這件事。
fascination (strong interest) · noun · C1
A very strong interest in something that makes you want to keep looking at it or finding out more about it.
著迷
核心畫面
One way to picture it: being held by something — you meant to look away, and you didn't.
被某樣東西「黏住」了——本來只是瞄一眼，結果眼睛移不開，還想再多知道一點。像看著火在燒、看著海浪一波一波打上來，明明…更多收起
被某樣東西「黏住」了——本來只是瞄一眼，結果眼睛移不開，還想再多知道一點。像看著火在燒、看著海浪一波一波打上來，明明沒什麼事發生，你就是停不下來。這個字的重心不在「喜歡」，而在那股拉住你的力量：注意力被扣住了，人有點沒辦法自己。From the word’s history
From Latin fascinare, 'to bewitch, to cast a spell on'. The old picture is being put under a spell — which is exactly why the modern word still feels like something holding you rather than you choosing.
來自拉丁文 fascinare「施法、下咒」。原本的畫面是人被下了咒、動彈不得——這正好解釋了為什麼今天的 fascination 聽起來不像「我決定要對這件事有興趣」，而像「這件事把我扣住了」。那股被動的、被牽著走的感覺，是從咒語那裡留下來的。
Wiktionary, 'fascination' / 'fascinate' (from Latin fascinare, 'to bewitch')
Two branches
東西身上那股吸力
同一件事翻到另一面：不看被扣住的人，改看那個扣住人的東西。
fascination (interesting thing) · noun · C1
A thing that interests you a great deal, or the quality in something that makes it very interesting.
魅力
原始詞典資料3 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。
fascinationnoun/fæsɪˈneɪʃən/
- 1
archaicThe act of bewitching, or enchanting
- Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.
- 2
The state or condition of being fascinated.
- To my fascination, the skies turned all kinds of colours.
- Sliding down the shaft he lay still, the spear jutting above him its full length, like a horrible stalk growing out of his back. The girl stared down at him in morbid fascination, until Khemsa took her arm and led her through the gate.
- 3
Something which fascinates.
- Life after death had always been a great fascination to him.
- Though more thoughtful than Madame de Mercœur, yet it asked far more knowledge of society—that wilderness of small intricacies—for her to penetrate into the motives of those who seemed so suddenly struck with her fascination; but she was too clear-headed to be deceived, and set it all down under one general belief in caprice.
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。