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intoxicating

/in-tok-si-key-ting/US // ɪnˈtɒk sɪˌkeɪ tɪŋ //UK // (ɪnˈtɒksɪˌkeɪtɪŋ) //

醉人,令人陶醉,醉人的,令人陶醉的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : causing or capable of causing intoxication: intoxicating beverages.
    • : exhilarating; exciting: an intoxicating idea.

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Examples

  • The film is an intoxicating capture of both a culture and a city.

  • Diaz was overworked and proud of it, driven by the intoxicating rush of saving lives.

  • In my review, I called the game an “intoxicating virtual reality” after about 19 hours with it, focusing only on the main story missions.

  • Knowing your team possesses the league’s best player — at the sport’s most important position — can be intoxicating.

  • Their hip-hop music is totally different, but it’s as intoxicating as the violent versions of hip-hop.

  • The residents of Arkansas decide Tuesday whether to legalize the sale of an intoxicating substance statewide.

  • “Some kinks need to be ironed out with the intoxicating open bar at the Mile High Club,” wrote Dowd.

  • What made for an intoxicating courtship, however, resulted in a troubled marriage.

  • And so the Libyan revolution was intoxicating, which is why the world watched it much more closely than the dour Syrian struggle.

  • An Arab legend has it that the intoxicating effects of hashish were discovered by an ascetic monk in 1155.

  • He was coming out, like myself, to sniff the air; and I was not surprised, for its sweetness after the rain was intoxicating.

  • In one of the cases a married woman was properly indicted for unlawfully selling intoxicating liquors.

  • There have been occasions when his majesty has exceeded the bounds in the way of intoxicating liquor.

  • Yet even this limited, this comparative freedom, which a man could afford to smile at, was intoxicating.

  • How different the homeward journey from the intoxicating outward flight, in the heyday of the spring!