- 1迷戀的；神魂顛倒
If you are infatuated, you have very strong love for someone, or a very strong interest in something, and it gets in the way of clear thinking. You may not see the person’s faults. You may drop your friends or change your plans. Parents and teachers often use this word when they think the feeling is too much, a bit foolish, and may not last. You can be infatuated with a person, a singer, a hobby, even an idea. It is hotter and less sensible than ordinary liking. People rarely say “I am infatuated” about themselves with pride; it usually comes from someone looking in from the outside. Though actually, the person inside the feeling may only call it love.
組成From infatuate + -ed.
同家族的字
- infatuationthe name of this strong, not-very-sensible feeling
- infatuatethe older verb: to fill someone with this kind of foolish love
原始詞典資料4 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。
infatuatedadj
- 1
Foolishly or unreasoningly fond of, attracted to or in love with (someone); besotted.
- 1771, Elizabeth Griffith, The History of Lady Barton, London: T. Davies & T. Cadell, Volume 3, Letter 60, p. 40, […] I did not know her then, or I could never have been so infatuated as I was, to a creature so every way her inferior […]
- “Gracious goodness,” the cry was, “how infatuated the mother is about that pert and headstrong boy who gives himself the airs of a lord on his blood-horse, and for whom our society is not good enough, and who would marry an odious painted actress off a booth, where very likely he wants to rant himself. …"
- 2
Excessively fond of or enthusiastic about (something).
- Before I leave Switzerland I cannot but observe, that the Notion of Witchcraft reigns very much in this Country. […] The People are so universally infatuated with the Notion, that if a Cow falls sick, it is Ten to One but an Old Woman is clapt up in Prison for it […]
- She was one of those people who are infatuated with patent medicines and all new-fangled methods of producing health or mending it.
- 3
obsoleteFoolish, stupid, lacking good judgment (often as a result of some external influence).
- […] that people must needs be madd or strangely infatuated, that build the chief hope of thir common happiness or safetie on a single person […]
- It is possible, that had they not been so infatuated, as to imagine they could retrieve in Germany all that they had lost in America, the British court in the beginning of the year 1759 might have listened to terms of accommodation.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- infatuate
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