tantalizing

英 [ˈtæntəlaɪzɪŋ]

美 [ˈtæntəlaɪzɪŋ]

v.  (以可望而不可即之物)逗引，招惹，使干着急
tantalize的现在分词

现在分词：tantalizing　

BNC.35345 / COCA.17372

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 tantalise


• VERB 使(某人)想要却得不到(某物);逗引;挑逗;撩拨
  If someone or somethingtantalizesyou, they make you feel hopeful and excited about getting what you want, usually before disappointing you by not letting you have what they appeared to offer.
  1. The boy would come into the room and tantalize the dog with his feed.
     那个男孩会到房间里拿狗食逗弄狗。
  2. ...the dreams of democracy that have so tantalized them.
     他们可望而不可即的民主梦想

英英释义

adj

• very pleasantly inviting
  1. a tantalizing aroma
  2. a tempting repast
  Synonym:tantalisingtempting
• arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach
  1. a tantalizing taste of success
  Synonym:tantalising

双语例句

• A number of tantalizing questions could then be addressed: how do stars live and die in that wild setting?
  然后就可以着手研究一些迫切的问题了：在那样一个狂野的环境里，星球是怎么生存和死亡的？
• Come here for great dim sum and tantalizing cocktails.
  来到这里，为伟大的点心和诱人的鸡尾酒。
• But the clues so far are tantalizing.
  但线索迄今尚不明朗。
• The younger woman could almost smell the tantalizing aroma of purple lilacs.
  这位年轻妇女几乎嗅到了紫丁香诱人的芬芳。
• We were treated to tantalizing glimpses of jagged, knife-like peaks, deep-green pines clinging to granite cliffs, and a great valley stretching far below.
  我们欣赏到了诱人的瞬间美景&锯齿似的群峰、花岗岩鄙视的青松和下面的深谷。
• In the mean time, more and more major firms are likely to find the technology's flexibility and low costs too tantalizing to resist.
  与此同时，越来越多的大公司可能会发现这种技术的灵活性和低廉的成本让人难以抵抗。
• I can't keep obsessing over tantalizing conspiracy theories.
  我不能总是被这些焦虑的阴谋理论所困扰。
• Secrets are tantalizing plot drivers in many a movie and TV show ('Downton Abbey 'fans, you know this).
  在很多电影和电视剧中，秘密是引人入胜的情节推动器（《唐顿庄园》（DowntonAbbey）的粉丝们，你们懂的）。
• A few tantalizing sips was all I had ever had, and certainly never my own bottle.
  我只是迫不及待地啜过几小口，从来没有自己喝过一瓶。
• The recent sequencing of the Neanderthal genome has provided tantalizing genetic clues pointing to differences in cranial and skeletal development between Neanderthals and modern humans.
  最近穴居人基因组测序提供了近在咫尺的基因线索，指出穴居人和现代人在头盖骨和骨骼发育方面的差异。