| 单词 | fascination |
| 释义 | fascination (once / 702 pages) n If diamondback turtles hold a certain fascination for you, you know everything there is to know about them, you talk about them all the time, and maybe you've embroidered one on your pillowcase. Fascination is an irresistible attraction. Be careful to use the right preposition: you've got a fascination with handsome princes, but handsome princes hold a fascination for you. When you have a fascination, it's as if you're bewitched, and — what do you know? — the word goes back to the Latin fascinare, which means "cast a spell on." WORD FAMILYfascination: fascinations+/fascinate: fascinated, fascinates, fascinating, fascination/fascinated: fascinatedly/fascinating: fascinatingly USAGE EXAMPLESOur illogical, enduring fascination with play remains one of life’s great mysteries. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) “The personal revelations just add to the fascination and gossip around them,” he said. Seattle Times(Dec 23, 2016) Tradescant was an avid plant collector and botanist, a prime example of the English aristocracy’s longstanding fascination with plants. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) 1n the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror) Syn|Hyper captivation enchantment, spell, trance a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation 2n the capacity to attract intense interest he held the children spellbound with magic tricks and other fascinations Hyper attraction, attractiveness the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts 3n a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual Syn|Hyper captivation, enchantment, enthrallment liking a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment |
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