| 单词 | fascination |
| 释义 | fascination (fæsɪneɪʃən ) Word forms: fascinations 1. uncountable noun Fascination is the state of being greatly interested in or delighted by something. I've had a lifelong fascination with the sea and with small boats. [+ with/of/for] Synonyms: obsession, interest, complex [informal], enthusiasm 2. countable noun A fascination is something that fascinates people. ...a series focusing on the fascinations of the British Museum. Collocations: endless fascination Blessed with brilliant sunshine, it's an island of great beauty and endless fascination. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Why the endless fascination with serving food and drink? Times, Sunday Times (2013) Weather should be a conversation topic of endless fascination. Times, Sunday Times (2013) It is his behaviour that has become the focus of the world's ghoulish fascination with this disaster. Times, Sunday Times (2012) There is no doubt there is still a ghoulish fascination with the case 20 years on. The Sun (2014) Some spectators were unsure whether to look away or to keep watching in ghoulish fascination. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Yet the tale itself and the flavorsome language hold their fascination. Houston Chronicle The conclusion was that war films hold a fascination for us because they deal with something extreme and incomprehensible that humans do to each other. The Sun Today the mere idea of stepping backwards in time, trampling over the relics of two dictatorships, holds a fascination for young people. Times, Sunday Times Anything old, unusual or one of a kind holds a fascination today, and with your mind being very inventive too, you'll have lots of innovative ideas. The Sun The prospect of the writer under surveillance has long held a fascination for readers. The Times Literary Supplement Many households must be watching this series in horrified fascination as they see their well-meaning attempts at parenting lampooned with such merciless accuracy. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Many households will be watching this series in horrified fascination as they see their well-meaning parenting lampooned with such merciless accuracy. Times, Sunday Times (2014) A lifelong fascination with lotions and potions was born. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Gardening soon became a lifelong fascination. Times, Sunday Times (2011) And it gave me a lifelong fascination for the beach hut. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Was it a deviant thirst to find a lifelong fascination with such things? Times, Sunday Times (2007) But while only a handful of fatal attacks take place each year, people have a morbid fascination with wild animals actively preying on humans in the modern world. Times, Sunday Times (2010) I've got a morbid fascination with it. The Sun (2013) That solo work made a direct appeal to our morbid fascination with serial killers. Times, Sunday Times (2016) It's a strange feeling, being an object of fascination. Times, Sunday Times She had become a shrivelled object of fascination. Times, Sunday Times He's always been an object of fascination to our industry. Times, Sunday Times In the centuries since, those tusks have remained understandable objects of fascination, even as we've discovered more about the animals from which they sprout. Smithsonian Mag Grandchildren are objects of fascination. Times, Sunday Times Her work includes sculpture, drawing and installation, all underpinned by an ongoing fascination with language and text. Times, Sunday Times I haven't got a job, really: it's an ongoing fascination with ancestry. Times, Sunday Times His jarring color choices, spontaneous mark making, and scratched hatch marks are the result of his ongoing fascination with the manipulation and implementation of paint. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It might indicate that to those whose brains have started to go soggy, talk shows and soaps exert a peculiar fascination. Times, Sunday Times Pregnancy must hold a peculiar fascination for creative sorts. Times, Sunday Times Sporting sibling rivalry holds a peculiar fascination. Times, Sunday Times His hands, narrow and white, exerted a peculiar fascination. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 While sound effects, background music and shipboard sets lend a peculiar fascination to the melodrama, the acting of the cast adds little tautness to the proceedings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Twenty-three years later and the public fascination with our identity code shows no sign of abating. Times, Sunday Times Yet the sophistication of modern weather reporting and the public fascination that it commands are testament to his visionary qualities. Times, Sunday Times This episode of cultural rivalry reveals not an overall winner but a justifiable public fascination with ducks. Times, Sunday Times But there were other factors at play in the public fascination. Times, Sunday Times Public fascination had turned to revulsion. Times,Sunday Times Most of the audience gawp, gripped by a strange fascination for this incomprehensible spectacle. Times, Sunday Times The process of accruing safety points has a strange fascination about it. Times, Sunday Times Ruins hold a strange fascination for the human species, and it's not just about appreciating ancient architecture or the beauty of jagged walls silhouetted against a lowering sky. Times, Sunday Times Elegant and unsettling, sleek and claustrophobic, submarines have a strange fascination even for people not usually interested in naval history. Times, Sunday Times The eating habits of the various war leaders hold a strange fascination. The Times Literary Supplement Translations: Chinese: 着迷 Japanese: 魅了された状態 |
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