英:['spelbaɪnd]
美:['spelˌbaɪnd]
英:['spelbaɪnd]
美:['spelˌbaɪnd]
spell·bind
spel baInd
第三人称单数:spellbinds
现在分词:spellbinding
过去式:spellbound
过去分词:spellbound
spellbinding (adj.)
词根:spellbind
adj.spellbinding 引人入胜的
n.spelling 拼写;拼字;拼法
spellbinder 能吸引听众的演说家;使人入迷的小说
v.spelling 拼写;意味着(spell的ing形式);迷住
spellbinding 吸引(spellbind的ing形式)
Verb
1. to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe;
"The snake charmer fascinates the cobra"
2. attract strongly, as if with a magnet;
"She magnetized the audience with her tricks"
3. put into a trance
同时, spell-bind “用咒语束缚”,起源于1795年,可能是由 spellbound 反推而来。相关词汇有: Spellbinding; spellbinder; “迷人的人”; 在美国政治俚语中,指“雄辩的演说家”(1888)。
back-formation from spellbound
The first known use of spellbind was in 1808
spellbindernoun
a very powerful speaker
one that compels attention
spellbindverb
to hold by or as if by a spell : fascinate
1 Bird on a Wire The result is a spellbindingly intimate portrait: Cohen comes across as supremely focused, polite and gentle, not to mention exhausted.
2 This spellbinding first novel is an ingenious revision of a classic Gothic tale, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”
3 Thomas Adès’ spellbinding “Exterminating Angel,” after the mysterious Luis Buñuel film, is being staged by the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
4 “Kamakura: Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan,” a spellbinding exhibition at Asia Society, features wonderfully vivid representations of Buddhist divinities.
5 It’s a short but spellbinding work from a master filmmaker.
6 This breathtaking performance weaves together a trio of spellbinding stories.
7 She furthermore has an unerring instinct for mining the richest depths and potent expressivity of Fischer's "luminous," "spellbinding," "sumptuous" mezzo.
8 Ingmar Bergman’s spellbinding films made his female stars immortal.
9 A spellbinding account of a moment that will never come again.
10 A spellbinding concert presented in February at the 92nd Street Y by the World Music Institute illuminated the Carnatic genre at its most sublime.
11 Confirmation of the city’s evolving palate came on a recent evening in the form of a spellbinding smoked sweet potato soup that a waiter poured tableside at Supper, a restaurant in Center City.
12 Marvelously fresh and dancey, to irresistible music by Beirut, without pointwork, it spellbindingly conjured states of emotional vulnerability without polish or contrivance.
13 If you come out of the gate, very strong with that message, and it's a spellbinding beginning for two, a book that ends up with some beautiful recipes, It's a fantastic book.
14 The series’ visuals — both its western splendor and its futuristic labs — are spellbinding and seemingly as boundless as its thematic sprawl.
15 Paul French's narrative of the investigation is spellbinding, drawing the reader from the very first pages into an unwholesome, macabre world where nothing seems to make sense.
16 For a brief spellbinding moment, Isabella’s aesthetic came alive and was complete.”
17 It remains a spellbinding example of the art of performance, where endurance and skill braid with courage and grace.
18 Contorting his body like a good yogi, he adjusted himself to make candle-to-candle connections possible, though, truthfully, it was more procedural than spellbinding.
19 So spellbinding were the broadcasts of this station, that each time something interesting came on, I would abandon whatever I was doing to listen.
20 Despite these flaws, “None but the Lonely Heart” makes us understand the enduring appeal of Tchaikovsky and von Meck’s story — and suggests their correspondence amounts to a spellbinding shared body of work.
1 出神的
4 迷住
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5 迷惑
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