今天我們要學習的高級詞彙是allure~
allure /əˈlʊər/
n.v. pull, attraction
A fishing lure is designed to have a certain allure for fish.
魚餌的用途就是誘引魚上鉤。
中文釋義:n.誘惑力,魅力 v.引誘
考試範圍:CET6 / TOEFL / IELTS / GRE
allurement n. 誘惑;誘惑物
lure /ljʊə/ n. v.誘惑;誘餌;
tempt /tempt/ v.引誘;
attract /ə'trækt/ v.吸引;
lust /lʌst/ n.欲望;v.貪求;
seduce /sɪ'djuːs/ v.引誘;
我們來看一個時事例句:
Privilege to stars, like Xiao Zeng, also has a very big allure.
特權,對於像小曾這樣的明星們來說,也是具有非常大的誘惑力。
我們再來看看英文原著《Call Me by Your Name》裡用到allurement這個單詞的片段:
What struck me was not just his amazing gift for reading people, for rummaging inside them and digging out the precise configuration of their personality, but his ability to intuit things in exactly the way I myself might have intuited them. This, in the end, was what drew me to him with a compulsion that overrode desire or friendship or the allurements of a common religion. 「How about catching a movie?」 he blurted out one evening when we were all sitting together, as if he』d suddenly hit on a solution to what promised to be a dull night indoors.
令我驚訝的不僅是他這麼有識人的天分,能夠輕易探察別人的內心,挖出其人格的精準輪廓;還有,他對事物的直覺與我對事物的直覺如出一轍——到頭來,這正是超越了欲望、友誼、共同信仰等等因素,令我不可自拔地被他吸引的原因。「去趕一場電影如何?」有一晚我們大家都坐在一起時他脫口而出,仿佛忽然想到一個好點子來排解夜晚枯坐在家的無聊。
高級詞彙,很少出現在我們的日常對話中,而是經常出現在文學作品、新聞報刊裡,以及SAT/GRE/專八等比較高級的英文考試中。所以,如果你的目標是看懂大部分英文名著,看懂英語新聞,或者通過高等英文考試,那麼就持續跟著我們學習高級詞彙吧,每天1個,順帶著其他相關詞彙群,非常高效哦
上期詞彙:amend