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Glamorous describes a person, place, or life that seems attractive, , and tied to wealth or fame — film premieres, fashion, big hotels, a job that looks like a dream from the outside. A glamorous woman in a magazine is stylish and striking; a glamorous career is the kind people envy at parties.
Glamorous形容 describes a person, place, or life一個人、地方,或生活 that seems attractive, exciting, and tied to wealth or fame看起來吸引人、令人興奮,又和財富或名氣有關 — film premieres電影首映, fashion時尚, big hotels大飯店, a job that looks like a dream from the outside一份從外面看像夢一樣的工作。A glamorous woman雜誌裡一個glamorous的女人 in a magazine is stylish and striking很有型又搶眼; a glamorous career一份glamorous的事業 is the kind就是那種 people envy at parties讓人在派對上羨慕的。
The word carries a little theatre. Though actually, we often use it with a small doubt: it looks glamorous, but the hours are terrible. That gap between the shine and the fact is part of how adults use it.
The word這個字 carries帶有 a little theatre一點戲劇的味道。Though actually不過其實, we常常 often use it with用它時常帶著 a small doubt一點懷疑: it it looks glamorous看起來很glamorous, but但 the hours are terrible工時很可怕。That gap那個落差 between the shine and the fact光鮮和事實之間的 is部分是 part of how adults use it成年人用這個字的方式。
It is common in speech and writing: more grown-up than , less heavy than .
It它 is common很常見 in speech and writing用在口語和寫作裡: more grown-up than比glam glam「浮誇」更成熟, less heavy than比glamorization glamorization「美化」輕一點。
組成From glamor + -ous (“full of”). Glamor is the American form of glamour; the adjective is spelled glamorous in both American and British English (no extra u).
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。
glamorousadj/ˈɡlæ.mə.ɹəs/
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Having glamour; stylish, attractive.
- I’m not surprised that Rudd seizes on my accent – his parents were British Jews from Edgware and Surbiton, and while Rudd was born in New Jersey in 1969 and raised in the US, he was often in Britain as a kid to visit relatives in London’s less glamorous suburbs and Basingstoke.
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Appealing, enticing.
- Thus it was not only in the doctrinal field that revisionism called into question the traditional belief in the revolutionary mission of the proletariat: the belief was challenged, perhaps more effectively still, by the success of revisionism as a social phenomenon, which robbed socialism of the glamorous prospect of a 'final battle' for universal liberation.
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archaicBeing associated with one or more glamours.
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。