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bewitchery

/bih-wich/US // bɪˈwɪtʃ //UK // (bɪˈwɪtʃ) //

巫术,迷魂阵,蛊惑人心,蛊惑人

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to affect by witchcraft or magic; cast a spell over.
    • : to enchant; charm; fascinate: The painter bewitched the crowd with his latest work.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cause someone to be enchanted; cast a spell over someone: She lost her power to bewitch.

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Examples

  • In his new, expanded edition of Influence, he describes seven principles, or levers, that essentially bewitch our rational minds and lead us to comply without a second thought.

  • In this episode of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, he gives a master class in the seven psychological levers that bewitch our rational minds and lead us to buy, behave, or believe without a second thought.

  • Two years later, bewitched by the area, he launched the social enterprise that would become his life’s work.

  • That dramatic night, July 27, 2019, marked the peak of weeks of grasshoppers taking to the air after dark and, like moths bewitched by a porchlight, filling the brightly lit streets of the most intensely illuminated city in the United States.

  • At the beginning of October, 33-year-old Dume, who prefers to use his middle name only, believed he had been bewitched.

  • This charming creature—I tell you she is irresistible—her very oddities bewitch me.

  • I've been told that country wizards carve images of their victims, and give them the names of those they'd bewitch.

  • Like foxes and badgers, they are able to bewitch human beings.

  • Thou liest; or wilt thou even yet deny that thou didst bewitch old Paasch his little girl with a white roll?

  • But, Baas, those Black Kendah wizards forgot to bewitch him against the little yellow man, of whom they took no account.

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