tantalizing
adj. 逗人的; 惹弄人的; 撩人的; 煽情的
v. 逗弄,引诱,折磨( tantalize的现在分词 )
If someone or something tantalizes you, 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.
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。
...the dreams of democracy that have so tantalized them.
他们可望而不可即的民主梦想
1. arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach;
2. very pleasantly inviting;
We have only vague and tantalizing glimpses of his power.
我们只能隐隐约约地领略他的威力,的确有一种可望不可及的感觉.
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.
She met his eagerness with that smiling, tantalizing passivity.
她以笑盈盈的 、 半推半就的姿态对付他那热切的情意.
The sight is most tantalizing.
这光景真惹人着急.
Nature supplies some hints, not of the transcendental order but altogether more tantalizing and momentary.
自然提供了一些暗示, 不属于超验论,但是要迷人得多,短促得多.