- 1耐人尋味的；引人好奇的
When something is intriguing, it pulls you in because it is a bit strange, a bit hidden, or not what you expected. You do not only like it — you want to know more. A puzzle can be intriguing. A person who will not explain themselves can be intriguing. A story that starts in the middle can be intriguing. The interest comes from mystery, not from something simply nice or fun. It is a little stronger, and a little more thoughtful, than interesting. You will hear it in books, in reviews, and in careful talk; it is not a playground word, but it is not cold and official either. Though actually, in everyday speech many people just say interesting, and save intriguing for when something keeps sitting in their mind. There is also a verb, intrigue, which can mean to make someone feel this way (The ending me) and, in older or more formal talk, a secret plan. The adjective intriguing almost always means the 'makes you curious' sense, not the secret-plan sense.
組成intrigue (to pull your interest, or a secret plan) + -ing (here it makes an adjective: that makes you feel this). Intrigue came into English from French. Long ago it was more about secret plots; the 'fascinating' meaning grew out of that.
同家族的字
- intriguethe verb and noun this adjective is built from
- intriguinglythe adverb: in an intriguing way
原始詞典資料5 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。
intriguingadj/ɪnˈtɹiːɡɪŋ/
- 1
Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.
- As a result, while the train was being shunted at Bombay, the buffers became locked, producing a situation most intriguing for the onlookers, but exasperating for the exalted passengers and the unhappy railway authorities.
- 2
Involving oneself in secret plots or schemes.
- A book that does not sell us the powerful, intriguing women of Rome simply as poisoners, schemers, and femmes fatales […]
- 3
archaicHaving clandestine or illicit intercourse.
- […] few respectable women will now sit at a window, looking into the public street, or gaze at passengers in any large town or city; and no one does so at present, unless an innocent inexperienced, husband-hunting, flirtish, or intriguing person.
intriguingnoun/ɪnˈtɹiːɡɪŋ/
- 1
datedAn intrigue.
- In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings, the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.
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