- 1令人著迷的、讓人看得目不轉睛
If someone or something is mesmerizing, you cannot stop watching or listening. Your eyes stay there. A dancer, a voice, a fire, a slow film, even a quiet face across a room can do this. The pull is strong, and it feels a little like a spell.
The word sits on an old story. A doctor named Mesmer, a long time ago, said he could hold people with a hidden power. Later, to someone meant to hypnotize them — to put them in a sleep-like state on purpose. Today we still use that stricter sense sometimes, but far more often we are stretching it: we do not mean a real trance. We mean the effect is that strong. Your attention is caught, and you do not want to leave.
It is a warm, slightly big word. You reach for it when 'nice' or 'pretty' is too small, and when 'interesting' is too dry. Reviews, art talk, and love talk use it a lot. People also use it loosely for anything they like looking at, which drains some of the magic — though actually, that loose use is now normal.
Grammar that matters: the film is mesmerizing; you are . One is the thing that pulls. The other is the person who cannot look away.
組成mesmerize + -ing. The verb is named after Franz Mesmer, the doctor behind the old 'animal magnetism' idea that later fed into hypnosis.
同家族的字
- mesmerizethe verb this adjective is built from
- mesmerizedthe -ed form: you are mesmerized when something is mesmerizing
- mesmerismthe old name for Mesmer's method, later tied to hypnosis
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
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mesmerizingadj
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Exercising mesmerism on; spellbinding; enthralling.
- a mesmerizing lava lamp
- As mesmerizing as it is to watch Kristen Kish whip up bacon and cinnamon waffles with boysenberry and strawberry jam, imagine playing poker with Hosea Rosenberg.
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