glamour
glamour 英 [ˈglæmə(r)] 美 [ˈɡlæmɚ]
n. 魅力
名词复数:glamours
- Glamour is the quality of being fascinating, alluring, or charming If you've watched Marilyn Monroe on a movie screen, then you've witnessed glamour!
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- n. 魅力
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1. hopeful young actors and actresses dazzled by the glamour of Hollywood
为好莱坞的魅力神魂颠倒时刻怀抱希望的年轻演员
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2. foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.
去国外旅行对她已失去魅力。
- glamour (n.) 1720, Scottish, "magic, enchantment" (especially in phrase to cast the glamor), a variant of Scottish gramarye "magic, enchantment, spell," said to be an alteration of English grammar (q.v.) in a specialized use of that word's medieval sense of "any sort of scholarship, especially occult learning," the latter sense attested from c. 1500 in English but said to have been more common in Medieval Latin. Popularized in English by the writings of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). Sense of "magical beauty, alluring charm" first recorded 1840. As that quality of attractiveness especially associated with Hollywood, high-fashion, celebrity, etc., by 1939.
- glamour (v.) 1814, "to enchant, charm, bewitch," from glamour (n.). Related: Glamoured; glamouring.
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