Think of someone pleasant taking your arm and walking you along. You go willingly, because the walking feels good — a warm voice, a kind smile, a lovely photograph. What you may not notice is that they are choosing the direction. That is why one word can end in three different places: you stay and look longer, you agree to something you had not planned, or a whole afternoon quietly disappears. The old word guile, meaning clever trickery, is sitting inside beguile, so the pleasure and the small loss of your own steering tend to arrive together.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary traces beguile to Middle English begilen, formed from be- plus guile. The parts still show through: to work guile on someone. Modern English keeps mostly the pleasant half of that, and the older half explains why a thing that beguiles you is never quite guaranteed to be honest.
Wiktionary 把 beguile 追到中古英文 begilen：be-（使、加在身上）加上 guile（手腕、詭計），字面就是「對一個人使出手腕」。今天用得最多的是好聽的那一半，但另一半還在底下，這正好解釋了為什麼讓你著迷的東西，不一定是老實的。
Wiktionary entry for beguile, packet etymology_text (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1057148994:19590)
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
beguileverb/bɪˈɡaɪl/
- 1
To deceive or delude (using guile).
- And as wililye as thoſe ſhrewes that beguyle hym haue holpe hym to inuolue and intryke the matter: I ſhall vſe ſo playn and open a way therin, that euery man ſhall well ſee the trouth.
- I know, sir, I am no flatterer: he that beguiled you, in a plain accent, was a plain knave.
- 2
To charm, delight or captivate.
- 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
- I will never touch The Orb, even though its mysterious glow seduces and beguiles.
- 3
To cause (time) to seem to pass quickly, by way of pleasant diversion.
- We beguiled the hours away.
- They beguiled the time by backbiting and intriguing against each other in a foolish kind of way.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。