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Transfix Træns'fɪks V.刺穿 Sweet Music Caught Held Transfixed

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Pron [træns'fɪks]
Back 【transfix】
v.刺穿
Sweet music caught and held him transfixed against the iron fence.
甜美的音乐穿过了铁墙而紧紧地扣住他的心弦。
Vocab
transfixto render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe

Use the verb transfix when something makes you freeze in fascination or fear. Your belly dancing moves might transfix your dance recital audience.

You might describe the way the last minutes of a scary movie transfix your whole family, leaving them on the edge of their seats, or how the photographs in a gallery transfix you with their beauty. The word comes from transfixus, "impaled" in Latin, which in turn is rooted in trans, "through or across," and figere, "to fasten."

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