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单词 beckon
释义
beck·on (bĕkən)
v. beck·oned, beck·on·ing, beck·ons
v.tr.
1. To signal or summon, as by nodding or waving.
2. To attract because of an inviting or enticing appearance: "a lovely, sunny country that seemed to beckon them on to the Emerald City" (L. Frank Baum).
v.intr.
1. To make a signaling or summoning gesture.
2. To be inviting or enticing.
n.
A gesture of summons.

[Middle English bekenen, from Old English bīecnan, bēcnan; see bhā-1 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

beckon·er n.
beckon·ing·ly adv.
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