tantalizing
adj. 逗人的; 惹弄人的; 撩人的; 煽情的
v. 逗弄,引誘,折磨( tantalize的現在分詞 )
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.
那個男孩會到房間裡拿狗食逗弄狗。
...the dreams of democracy that have so tantalized them.
他們可望而不可即的民主夢想
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.
我們只能隱隱約約地領略他的威力,的確有一種可望不可及的感覺.
The younger woman could almost smell the tantalizing aroma of purple lilacs.
這位年輕婦女幾乎嗅到了紫丁香誘人的芬芳.
She met his eagerness with that smiling, tantalizing passivity.
她以笑盈盈的 、 半推半就的姿態對付他那熱切的情意.
The sight is most tantalizing.
這光景真惹人著急.
Nature supplies some hints, not of the transcendental order but altogether more tantalizing and momentary.
自然提供了一些暗示, 不屬於超驗論,但是要迷人得多,短促得多.