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tantalizing

/tan-tl-ahy-zing/US // ˈtæn tlˌaɪ zɪŋ //

诱人的,挑逗性的,挑逗性,诱人

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having or exhibiting something that provokes or arouses expectation, interest, or desire, especially that which remains unobtainable or beyond one's reach: a tantalizing taste of success.

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Examples

  • Perhaps the most tantalizing promise of molecular farming in the near future is crops that contain a vaccine.

  • Studies like this hint at the tantalizing possibilities of advancing technology.

  • It’s a tantalizing prospect — and slowly, the Schoenfelds start to think he’s onto something, too.

  • There are also tantalizing hints that body odor doesn’t just influence romantic relationships, but platonic ones, too.

  • With the fossils we have, there’s the tantalizing possibility that it didn’t just happen once.

  • Madame Cézanne is ultimately about the figure in the portraits rather than the person, who remains a tantalizing enigma.

  • She remembers, of course, being tantalized by the tantalizing opening breakdown scene.

  • In support of his assessment, he offers a number of tantalizing theories, only partially undergirded by fully explored evidence.

  • Because, for me, the idea of the regal Diane in the ratty warehouse digs is positively tantalizing.

  • It requires something on the scale of an earthquake, which is why impeachment talk is so tantalizing.

  • But to starving men, with not a mouthful in our grasp, this display of food was tantalizing.

  • The tantalizing smile came back to the face of the red man, who shook his head.

  • I began to feel that it was better to be here with you blind, than alone in town with that tantalizing half-sight of everything.

  • There was the tantalizing feeling that I was on the verge of knowing at least something.

  • The recollection was as tantalizing as an itch; but he couldn't locate its source.