罩在外面的那層光
這一族是核心畫面本身，以及它落在不同東西上的樣子：先是罩在一種生活或行業上，再是罩在一個人或一個空間的外表上。
glitzy allure · noun · C1
The exciting, attractive feeling that seems to belong to wealth, success, and famous places or jobs.
光鮮
核心畫面
You can think of it as a shine thrown over something — a spell that makes a life, a place, or a job look more from the outside than it feels from the inside. The shine is real to whoever sees it, but it sits on the surface.
一層被「施」在東西表面的光。你從外面看某種生活——名人、電影圈、飛來飛去的工作——它閃著一種令人嚮往的光；但那層光是…更多收起
一層被「施」在東西表面的光。你從外面看某種生活——名人、電影圈、飛來飛去的工作——它閃著一種令人嚮往的光；但那層光是罩在上面的，不一定等於裡面的真實。這個字有趣的地方在於它天生就帶著「看起來如此」的味道：它描述的不是那件事本身有多好，而是它在旁人眼中發出的吸引力。所以 glamour 常常和「距離」有關——離得遠才看得見那層光，走近了反而會發現裡面也是加班和等待。From the word’s history
Glamour is a Scots alteration of grammar: in an age when almost no one could read, book-learning (Latin grammar) was assumed to shade into magic, so 'glamour' first meant a spell cast over the eyes that made things look other than they were. The modern 'surface shine that dazzles the onlooker' is that same enchantment, secularised.
這個字和 grammar（文法）其實是同一個字的兩個分身。中世紀識字的人極少，會讀拉丁文法書的人被當成懂神祕學問的人，於是蘇格蘭語把 grammar 走音成 glamour，用來指「施在眼睛上的法術」——讓你看見的東西不是它本來的樣子。今天的 glamour 把咒語脫掉了，可是那個結構完整保留下來：仍然是一層加在表面、作用在「看的人」身上的迷惑之光。知道這個來源，就懂了為什麼 glamour 幾乎總帶一點「未必屬實」的暗示。
Wiktionary (etymology supplied in the payload): Scots glamour “magic”, alteration of Middle English gramere “grammar”, doublet of grammar/grimoire
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原始詞典資料8 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。
glamournoun/ˈɡlæmə/
- 1
Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seem beauteous.
- They often murmur to themselves, they speak To one another seldom, for their woe Broods maddening inwardly and scorns to wreak Itself abroad; and if at whiles it grow To frenzy which must rave, none heeds the clamour, Unless there waits some victim of like glamour, To rave in turn, who lends attentive show.
- 2
Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
- glamour magazines; a glamour model
- 3
Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing.
- The idea of being a movie star has lost its glamour for me.
- “The North Pole was one of these places, I remember. Well, I haven’t been there yet, and shall not try now. The glamour’s off.”
- 4
Any artificial interest in, or association with, objects, or persons, through which they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
- 5
A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
- When the golden October comes, with its witching of hazy air that makes a glamour for all things and any landscape, we shall see these offspring of poetic myth stretch out beside the creeks, breaking the tender hulls for their magical chincapins, and feeding on them and on the dreams of which they are the talismans.
- 6
An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
- 7
slangA beautiful woman.
- One of the Qantas staff, a glamour, made her way over to us.
glamourverb/ˈɡlæmə/
- 1
To enchant; to bewitch.
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。