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attention-getting

/uh-ten-shuhn-get-ing/US // əˈtɛn ʃənˌgɛt ɪŋ //

引人注目,引人注意,吸引人的注意力,引人注目的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : conspicuously drawing attention to something or someone: an attention-getting device; attention-getting behavior.

Examples

  • Dora is seen getting dressed as a mermaid by a cursor being manned by some omniscient game player.

  • One witness said the gunfire began after a traffic collision, which drew the attention of a nearby police officer.

  • Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.

  • He was getting another lesson in what he had seemed not to appreciate fully about cops.

  • First, they allow Paul to siphon off attention from whichever potential candidate is making news.

  • This attracted much attention, and the London journals praised the artist.

  • His parents were peasants and he wrought as a day laborer till he attracted attention.

  • The little crowd and the boats on the beach were right under them and no one paid any attention or seemed to be in a hurry.

  • I was right, so it seems, about getting ashore before the enemy could see to shoot out to sea.

  • The card table profitably occupies some six to eight hours daily of these old fellows' attention.