- 1令人著迷的、催眠般的
If something is mesmeric, it is so attractive or so powerful that people cannot think of anything else. A voice, a dance, a look can be mesmeric — it holds you the way a strong spell would. The word comes from an old idea of , so it still carries a hint of being put in a trance, though today people often just mean impossible to look away from. It is a fairly literary, adjective; in speech people more often say hypnotic or .
core核心畫面
組成From Mesmer — Franz Mesmer, the doctor whose name became a word for hypnotism — + -ic, which makes an adjective. So it first meant like Mesmer's hypnotism, then holding you as if in a spell.
同家族的字
- mesmerizethe verb from the same name
- mesmerismthe older noun for that kind of hypnotism
原始詞典資料1 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。
mesmericadj/mɛzˈmɛɹɪk/
- 1
Of or relating to mesmerism or mesmerization.
- Even were he to write a lie, he could not meet her and maintain it, with her eyes upon his face: they had uttermost power over him—power as of life and death,—those fine grey sweet mesmeric eyes !
- Podson's globular stare assured any woman that the bargain was sacred. It was solemn, intent, opaque; it was also slightly mesmeric, which is to say that it gave out everything and took in nothing.
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