tantalizing
英 [ˈtæntəlaɪzɪŋ]
美 [ˈtæntəlaɪzɪŋ]
v. (以可望而不可即之物)逗引,招惹,使干着急
tantalize的现在分词
现在分词:tantalizing
BNC.35345 / COCA.17372
柯林斯词典
- VERB 使(某人)想要却得不到(某物);逗引;挑逗;撩拨
If someone or somethingtantalizesyou, they make you feel hopeful and excited about getting what you want, usually before disappointing you by not letting you have what they appeared to offer.- The boy would come into the room and tantalize the dog with his feed.
那个男孩会到房间里拿狗食逗弄狗。 - ...the dreams of democracy that have so tantalized them.
他们可望而不可即的民主梦想
- The boy would come into the room and tantalize the dog with his feed.
in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 tantalise
英英释义
adj
- very pleasantly inviting
- a tantalizing aroma
- a tempting repast
- arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach
- a tantalizing taste of success
双语例句
- The first addressed the tantalizing question: What qualities of a movie best predict Oscars nominations?
第一篇解答了一直困扰人们的问题:一部影片具备什么样的条件才能获得奥斯卡提名? - These online environments offer tantalizing glimpses of how millions of avatars interact on a daily basis outside of a laboratory setting and what users derive from that experience.
这些网络环境下如何提供诱人的数以百万计的替身扶轮少年服务团在每日的生活中,在实验室背景和用户源自这个经验。 - A few tantalizing sips was all I had ever had, and certainly never my own bottle.
我只是迫不及待地啜过几小口,从来没有自己喝过一瓶。 - "Viking" provided tantalizing support on both sides of the question.
“海盗”号再次给两方面都提供了似是而非的佐证。 - The implications of the open placebo that is, we know the sugar pill is just a sugar pill, but it still works as medicine are tantalizing.
公开安慰剂(即我们知道自己服用的只是糖丸,但它还是会产生药物的效果)的潜在影响是十分诱人的。 - So the real question is, who gets it? It sure would make a tantalizing acquisition for someone.
因此,真正的问题是下一个买家会是谁?某些人迫切地想收购克莱斯勒。 - But the clues so far are tantalizing.
但线索迄今尚不明朗。 - Secrets are tantalizing plot drivers in many a movie and TV show ('Downton Abbey 'fans, you know this).
在很多电影和电视剧中,秘密是引人入胜的情节推动器(《唐顿庄园》(DowntonAbbey)的粉丝们,你们懂的)。 - A number of tantalizing questions could then be addressed: how do stars live and die in that wild setting?
然后就可以着手研究一些迫切的问题了:在那样一个狂野的环境里,星球是怎么生存和死亡的? - I can't keep obsessing over tantalizing conspiracy theories.
我不能总是被这些焦虑的阴谋理论所困扰。