小词详解 | glamour
glamour 英 [ˈɡlæmə(r)] 美 [ˈɡlæmər]
TEM8
外刊例句
Despite the glamour, the sporting element of the games retained an endearing amateurishness.
尽管魅力四射,但运动会的体育元素仍保留着一种可爱的业余气息。
——《经济学人》Other tech and business gurus try to sell us on “toil glamour.”
其他科技和商业导师也试图向我们推销“辛劳的魅力”。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[noun] an attractive or exciting quality that makes certain people or things seem appealing
[名词] 吸引人的或令人兴奋的特质,使某些人或事物看起来动人
深入解读
话说在中世纪时, grammar 一词并不仅限于语言研究,还包括一般性的学习。由于那个时候的普通民众都不识字,并且几乎所有的学习都用普通民众不会说或不理解的语言来表达的,因此他们普遍认为魔法、占星术等都包含在这种广义的 grammar 中。
由于 grammar 的拼写形式在18世纪的苏格兰变体为 glamer 或 glamour ,因此便产生了现在的 glamour 一词,原用来表示“魔法、魔力”。
随着 glamour 一词在英语中的适用范围越来越广,便逐渐发展出现在的主要含义指“魅力、吸引力、诱惑力”,主要指一种令人兴奋却又往往是虚幻浪漫的吸引力,比如:
她抛开城市的绚烂,去一个宁静的乡间小镇居住。
She forsook the glamour of the city and went to live in a sedate country town.她现在是空中乘务员了,去国外旅行对她已失去吸引力。
Now that she's a flight attendant, foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.
这个词也常用来形容女性的“迷人的美、艳丽”,也就是一种性感的美丽或魅力,比如一位艳丽迷人的女演员(an actress with glamour)。
名著用例
How often had she looked at the well-dressed actresses on the stage and wondered how she would look, how delightful she would feel if only she were in their place. The glamour, the tense situation, the fine clothes, the applause, these had lured her until she felt that she, too, could act — that she, too, could compel acknowledgment of power.
当她看着舞台上衣服华丽的女演员时,她不止一次地想象如果她在台上演这个角色她会是什么样的,如果她处在她们的位子,心里又会多开心。辉煌的舞台魅力,紧张的情节,漂亮的戏装,还有观众的掌声,这一切深深地吸引着她,使她感到自己也能演戏——也能让别人承认她的才华。
出自美国现实主义作家西奥多·德莱赛(Theodore Dreiser)创作的长篇小说《嘉莉妹妹》(Sister Carrie)。
同近义词
allure: the quality of being powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating
attraction: the action or power of evoking interest, pleasure, or liking for someone or something
charm: the power or quality of giving delight or arousing admiration
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