喜樂美語
  1. 1aB2/ˈfæsəneɪtɪd/ · /ˈfæsɪneɪtɪd/著迷的

    So interested in something or someone that you keep watching, listening, or reading, and find it hard to stop.

    示範例句 · Example

    Leo was fascinated by the old clock in his grandmother's living room.

    逐字里歐被他祖母客廳裡那個老時鐘迷住了。

    「fascinated」講的是「人」的感覺：某個東西太有意思了，你的注意力被抓住，看著看著就停不下來。它比 interested 強——interested 是「我想多知道一點」，fascinated 是「我整個人被吸住了」。這個字家族可以想成同一個畫面的兩邊：fascinating 是「把你吸住的那個東西」，fascinated 是「被吸住的那個人」，所以人用 fascinated，東西用 fascinating。常見句型是 fascinated by／with something，或 fascinated to see／hear／learn something；它通常放在 be、look、watch 後面，比較少直接放在名詞前面。

    常見搭配

    • fascinated by something

      對某件事著迷

      extremely interested in something you are watching, reading, or hearing about

      Ren has always been fascinated by maps of old cities.

    • fascinated with something

      對某件事長期著迷

      very interested in one particular thing, often over a long time

      My little sister is completely fascinated with dinosaurs right now.

    • fascinated to see / hear / learn something

      得知某事時覺得很有意思

      very interested when you find something out

      Aisha was fascinated to hear how her grandfather learned to swim.

    • watch / listen, fascinated

      看得／聽得入迷

      to watch or listen with all your attention on it

      The children listened, fascinated, as Zoe told the story.

    • become fascinated

      慢慢變得著迷

      to start being extremely interested in something

      Jamal became fascinated with photography after his first camera.

    • utterly / completely fascinated

      完全著迷

      fascinated in a very strong way

      We were completely fascinated by the machine that folds paper into cranes.

    意思相近

    interestedintriguedcuriousabsorbedspellboundcaptivated

core核心畫面

You can picture it as being held. Something has caught your attention and won't let go — your eyes stay on it, you keep listening, you keep reading, and pulling yourself away takes effort. The interest isn't something you decided to have; it happened to you.

你被「黏住」了。某個東西抓住你的注意力，而且不放手——眼睛捨不得移開，話一直想聽下去，書一直翻下去，要停還得花點力氣把自己拔出來。重點在於這種被吸住的感覺不是你決定的，是它先抓住你的；所以這個字是 -ed 結尾的被動形，講的是「我被它迷住」，而不是「我很有趣」。

From the word’s history

From Latin fascinare, 'to bewitch, put under a spell' (from fascinum, a spell or charm). The old sense of being magically held explains the modern feeling of attention you can't pull away.

來自拉丁文 fascinare「施法、下咒」（源自 fascinum，咒語、護符）。原本講的是被法術定住、動不了——這個「被定住」的畫面直接留在現代用法裡：今天說 fascinated，講的還是那種被某樣東西定住、移不開視線的狀態，只是施法的換成了一本書、一個人、一段影片。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline), s.v. fascinate; Merriam-Webster, s.v. fascinate

同家族的字

意思相近

interestedintriguedcuriousabsorbedspellboundcaptivated

原始詞典資料2 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。

fascinatedadj/ˈfæsɪneɪtɪd/

  • 1

    extremely interested

    • utterly fascinated
    • deeply fascinated

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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