| 词汇 | tantalizingly |
| 释义 | tantalizingly adverb (UK usuallytantalisingly)uk /ˈtæn.tə.laɪ.zɪŋ.li/ us /ˈtæn.t̬ə.laɪ.zɪŋ.li/ in a way that makes you feel excited and hope that you might get or do something, especially when this does not in fact happen: 逗引性地;挑逗性地 They came tantalizingly close to winning.他们就差一点就能赢了。 Cooking smells wafted tantalizingly in the air.空气中飘荡着诱人的烹饪气味。 See tantalizing The disappointment wouldn't weigh so heavily if the promise of victory hadn't swirled so tantalizingly close. Opening my eyes, I found his face just above my own, his lips so tantalizingly near I could have kissed him with the barest of efforts. But the play tantalizingly offers more than it gives. The resulting dishes are tantalizingly familiar yet enticingly exotic. Attracting and tempting affinity allure alluringly arrest attract charisma charm offensive charm the pants off someoneidiom chum clickbait glamour honey trap incentive jump out at someone lure tantalizing tempt temptation temptingly tickle someone's fancyidiom Examples of tantalizinglytantalizingly Until further historical evidence emerges, such experiences remain tantalizingly out of reach. Some of the themes tantalizingly invoked here are more fully explicated elsewhere, while the sometimes formidable formulations of his more ambitious books are crisply recapitulated. And the art of governance is tantalizingly elusive, resistant to scientific analysis. However, this relationship has not been adequately considered, so the insights offered by formal approaches remain tantalizingly limited. It is this unexplained variation which remains so tantalizingly large. It tends, however, to leave room for nagging doubts about whether some less common but nonetheless crucial usage is still lurking tantalizingly in the unseen data. In a tantalizingly brief conclusion, he explains this outcome by reference to the persistence of an overbearing state and the insufficient entrenchment of citizenship and property rights. The resulting experience for the reader is a kind of patchwork in which considerable insight is gained from some chapters while the evidence from others remains tantalizingly thin. The match did not fail to disappoint as the game was tantalizingly close until the dying seconds of the game. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Tantalizingly, we have the examples only and not the explanations or contemporary commentaries. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They virtually chase down the big score and the match is tantalizingly poised in the last over. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Very often they would remain on the north side of the river, tantalizingly out of reach. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The open water crept closer to the ships, but remained tantalizingly out of reach. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Each episode is narrated by a body who watches the team as they pursue the tantalizingly difficult challenge of figuring out who this victim once was. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His objects are like compounds with a long-forgotten use, outlandish yet made up of tantalizingly familiar components, all twisted or going off at angles in a most obstreperous manner. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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