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Tantalizingly is the adverb: it says that something happens, or that something is, in a way that leaves you wanting. Its most common home by far is in front of the words close, near, and out of reach — "tantalizingly close to winning", "the summit was tantalizingly near", "the answer stayed tantalizingly out of reach". Used that way it does a precise job: it tells you the person very nearly got there and did not, and that this hurts a little. It also works with vague and brief — "the report was tantalizingly vague" means it said just enough to make you hungry for more. Occasionally it describes a way of doing something: she smiled tantalizingly. Written more than spoken; common in sports reporting and journalism. British spelling: tantalisingly.
(近得)令人扼腕地;吊人胃口地。最常見的搭配是 tantalizingly close,台灣說「只差那麼一點點」「差一步就…」,帶著可惜的口氣。單用一個中文詞很難對應,記搭配比記翻譯有用。
組成tantalizing + -ly, the ending that turns a describing word into one that describes how. Three layers deep from the Greek king Tantalus, who could never reach the fruit above his head.
同家族的字
- tantalizingthe adjective -ly was added to
- tantalizethe verb at the root of the whole set
原始詞典資料1 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。
tantalizinglyadv
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In a tantalizing manner.
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。