charm
charm 英 [tʃɑ:m] 美 [tʃɑrm]
n. 魅力，吸引力 v. 吸引；迷住
进行时:charming 过去式:charmed 过去分词:charmed 第三人称单数:charms 名词复数:charms
- A charm is a magical spell or an object that brings luck: it's also a quality of being attractive and pleasing. To charm someone is to attract them.
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- n. 魅力，吸引力
- v. 吸引；迷住
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1. a man of great charm
富有魅力的男人
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2. The hotel is full of charm and character.
这家旅馆风格独特，极具吸引力。
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3. her physical charms (= her beauty)
她那妩媚的外貌
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4. a lucky charm
吉祥饰物
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5. a charm bracelet
带有吉祥饰物的手镯
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6. He was charmed by her beauty and wit.
他被她的才貌迷住了。
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7. Her words had lost their power to charm.
她的话再也没有吸引力了。
- charm (n.) c. 1300, "incantation, magic charm," from Old French charme (12c.) "magic charm, magic spell incantation; song, lamentation," from Latin carmen "song, verse, enchantment, religious formula," from canere "to sing" (from PIE root *kan- "to sing"), with dissimilation of -n- to -r- before -m- in intermediate form *canmen (for a similar evolution, see Latin germen "germ," from *genmen). The notion is of chanting or reciting verses of magical power.
- charm (v.) c. 1300, "to recite or cast a magic spell," from Old French charmer (13c.) "to enchant, to fill (someone) with desire (for something); to protect, cure, treat; to maltreat, harm," from Late Latin carminare, from Latin carmen "song, verse, enchantment, religious formula" (see charm (n.)). In Old French used alike of magical and non-magical activity. In English, "to win over by treating pleasingly, delight" from mid-15c.; weaker sense of "be highly pleasing" is by early 18c. Charmed (short for I am charmed) as a conventional reply to a greeting or meeting is attested by 1825.
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