| 正面 | 12088.mesmerize 英 美 ['mɛzməraɪz]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1、dogm- + -a.vt. 施催眠术；迷住；以魅力迫使 例句： 1. He could mesmerize an audience by the sheer force of his presence.他只要一出场,观众就为之倾倒. mesmerize 迷住，着迷来自19世纪奥地利医生Franz Anton Mesmer,因他发明了一种催眠术而得名。字面意思即使催眠的，引申词义迷住，着迷。 mesmerizemesmerize: [19] Franz Anton Mesmer (1734– 1815) was an Austrian doctor whose experiments with what he called ‘animal magnetism’, by which he induced a trance-like state in his subjects, are considered to be the forerunner of modern hypnotism (formerly called mesmerism [19]). The broader sense of mesmerize, ‘enthral’, dates from the early 20th century.mesmerize (v.)1829, back-formation from mesmerism. Transferred sense of "enthrall" is first attested 1862. Related: Mesmerized; mesmerizing." |