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beguiling

/bih-gahy-ling/US // bɪˈgaɪ lɪŋ //UK // (bɪˈɡaɪlɪŋ) //

讨人喜欢的,讨人喜欢,诱人的,迷人的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having the power to charm or divert the attention; intriguing: a beguiling smile.

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Examples

  • Yet the good reporter must go deep beneath the beguiling artistry and trove of trophies, including a record 20 major titles — tying him for the time being with Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, the other members of the sport’s so-called Big Three.

  • This series of examples, in Seth’s telling, “chips away at the beguiling but unhelpful intuition that consciousness is one thing—one big scary mystery in search of one big scary solution.”

  • The effect of peace and mystery — and of peace within the mystery of a reality permanently mediated by technology — is beguiling.

  • Smart is nothing short of beguiling as Deborah Vance, a workaholic Vegas comic and onetime stand-up pioneer whose material could now use an upgrade.

  • Deborah is, in alternating turns, as tough and casually callous as Floyd Gerhardt, as beguiling as Laurie Blake, and — in the last few minutes of the season — as gruffly tender as Helen Fahey and as charming as Charlene Frazier.

  • The most beguiling figure in this whole drama is Rebekah Brooks—it could be said that she is the only beguiling figure.

  • Her 2013 release Lua Ya offers a beguiling type of Korean ambient vocal music, unlike anything else I heard during the year.

  • Hawes later denied that drugs helped him play jazz—a beguiling myth that killed many of his contemporaries.

  • His lean arrangement of this covered-by-everyone classic leaves plenty of room for her beguiling vocals.

  • These beguiling theories can energize or console political partisans.

  • All this time Ruth was quietly spending in her room, beguiling the waiting, weary hours, with pictures of the meeting at the end.

  • Said Hallblithe: “Dost thou not owe me a joy in return for my beguiling?”

  • I am not far from deeming that this is a land of dreams made for my beguiling.

  • The whole family is portrayed gathering round the fire in the winter evenings and beguiling the time by telling stories.

  • She smiled and went on crooning to him, half singing, half sighing that beguiling little melody of tenderness and entreaty.