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enchantment

/en-chant-muhnt, -chahnt-/US // ɛnˈtʃænt mənt, -ˈtʃɑnt- //UK // (ɪnˈtʃɑːntmənt) //

魔法,魅力,魔术,咒语

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the art, act, or an instance of enchanting.
    • : the state of being enchanted.
    • : something that enchants: Music is an enchantment that never fails.

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Examples

  • If Phil is cruel, his intelligence is off the charts—and even he is capable of succumbing to enchantment.

  • Galileo also understood that while the Church had the pomp and magic of decades of art and music, science had the enchantment of a new invention—the telescope.

  • Any book that tries to do justice to Keats must be beautiful at least a fair bit of the time, and “Keats’s Odes,” particularly when its author allows herself to be carried by the force of her enchantment with the poems, satisfies that requirement.

  • But I also want jazz to be loved and enjoyed, to serve as a source of enchantment and delight.

  • A century apart, Paul Rosolie and Henry Walter Bates describe their abiding enchantment with the Amazon.

  • But as the years go on, you learn about the oily machinery that manufactures all that enchantment.

  • A prime enchantment was that tourists never visit the Statue of Liberty by night, so there was no electricity on the island.

  • This is true magic—the enchantment of love, memory, obsession, and the flawed attempts of human beings to understand themselves.

  • He, Bastien-Lepage, painter of the soil, found himself unable to transfer to canvas the enchantment of that land of fairy tale!

  • Realm of enchantment, break your mystic spell, Land of the lotus, smiling land farewell!

  • The hard-hearted executor of the law was brought within the influence of her enchantment.

  • Do these gentlemen really feel the thunderclap or the enchantment of an object of art?

  • If you can work magic, why don't you break the enchantment you are under and return to your proper form?