释义 |
tantalizingtan‧ta‧liz‧ing (also tantalising British English) /ˈtæntəl-aɪzɪŋ/ adjective - The tantalizing smell of barbecue was in the air.
- And animal skull fossils sometimes yield tantalizing evidence of transitional metabolic natures.
- Herbert's notes give only tantalizing hints of what happened to the other Jacobson children.
- It was the most tantalizing smell.
- She knew she would not be able to sleep with so much tantalizing information spinning in her mind.
- She saw tantalizing gatherings round the bold rectangle of the dining table.
- There are tantalizing hints in the archaeological record that the Minoans may have written longer, non-bureaucratic texts on parchment.
- Through the fifteenth-century wooden door there is little to detain the visitor, just a few tantalizing traces of eleventh-century frescoes.
making you feel a desire to have or do something SYN tempting: the tantalizing smell of fried bacon—tantalizingly adverb: She was tantalizingly out of reach. |