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If you are mesmerized by someone or something, you cannot stop watching or listening, because they are so attractive or have such a powerful effect. A film, a speaker, a fire, a football match can mesmerize you. The verb is usually used in the passive or with by: I was mesmerized by her voice. It comes from mesmerism, an old name for a kind of named after a doctor called Mesmer; the modern use is almost always figurative — you are not really hypnotized, you are just held. British spelling is often mesmerise; it is the same word.
使著迷；看得（聽得）移不開
原始詞典資料2 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。
mesmerizeverb/ˈmɛzməɹaɪz/
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To exercise mesmerism on; to affect another person, such as to heal or soothe, through the use of animal magnetism.
- Mesmer had about a hundred people whom he had instructed as magnetisers, some of whom belonged to the nobility, who also "mesmerised" people by making passes over the affected parts of the body.
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To spellbind; to enthrall.
- She mesmerized the audience with her tricks
- Then he commenced to talk, really talk, and inside of two flaps of a herring’s fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt’s boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
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。