tantalizing

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 tantalise


1. VERB 使(某人)想要却得不到(某物);逗引;挑逗;撩拨
   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.
   1. 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。
   2. ...the dreams of democracy that have so tantalized them.
      他们可望而不可即的民主梦想

1. Still, the idea of an industry-changing ITV remains a tantalizing one.
   不过，这依然阻挡不了我们对颠覆性的iTV充满期待与渴望。
2. In the mean time, more and more major firms are likely to find the technology's flexibility and low costs too tantalizing to resist.
   与此同时，越来越多的大公司可能会发现这种技术的灵活性和低廉的成本让人难以抵抗。
3. It's a tantalizing idea& especially for end users.
   这是一个激动人心的想法，尤其是对于终端用户。
4. 'he went on,' I cannot think why you are so tantalizing.
   啊，苔丝！他继续说，我不该以为你在逗着我玩吧。
5. The study also holds out the tantalizing possibility that an investor following the formula can perform even better than Berkshire.
   另外，这项研究也展示了一种撩拨人心的可能性：遵守这套公式的投资者甚至可以取得比伯克希尔还要好的成绩。
6. Secrets are tantalizing plot drivers in many a movie and TV show ('Downton Abbey 'fans, you know this).
   在很多电影和电视剧中，秘密是引人入胜的情节推动器（《唐顿庄园》（DowntonAbbey）的粉丝们，你们懂的）。
7. The first addressed the tantalizing question: What qualities of a movie best predict Oscars nominations?
   第一篇解答了一直困扰人们的问题：一部影片具备什么样的条件才能获得奥斯卡提名？
8. I knew the gifts I already had were not those of which friends had thrown out such tantalizing hints, and my teacher said the presents I was to have would be even nicer than these.
   我知道我的礼物不会是像朋友们暗示的那些东西，我的老师告诉我，我得到的礼物要比传言中的东西好得多。
9. The implications of the open placebo that is, we know the sugar pill is just a sugar pill, but it still works as medicine are tantalizing.
   公开安慰剂（即我们知道自己服用的只是糖丸，但它还是会产生药物的效果）的潜在影响是十分诱人的。
10. The bread department features the tantalizing smell of fresh baked bread& cakes.
    面包部门特点的新鲜出炉的面包和蛋糕诱人的香味。
11. I can't keep obsessing over tantalizing conspiracy theories.
    我不能总是被这些焦虑的阴谋理论所困扰。
12. A number of tantalizing questions could then be addressed: how do stars live and die in that wild setting?
    然后就可以着手研究一些迫切的问题了：在那样一个狂野的环境里，星球是怎么生存和死亡的？
13. These online environments offer tantalizing glimpses of how millions of avatars interact on a daily basis outside of a laboratory setting and what users derive from that experience.
    这些网络环境下如何提供诱人的数以百万计的替身扶轮少年服务团在每日的生活中，在实验室背景和用户源自这个经验。
14. Created a snack that has been tantalizing taste buds for nearly four decades.
    因而创造出了刺激众多人味觉将近40年的小吃。
15. So the real question is, who gets it? It sure would make a tantalizing acquisition for someone.
    因此，真正的问题是下一个买家会是谁？某些人迫切地想收购克莱斯勒。
16. We were treated to tantalizing glimpses of jagged, knife-like peaks, deep-green pines clinging to granite cliffs, and a great valley stretching far below.
    我们欣赏到了诱人的瞬间美景&锯齿似的群峰、花岗岩鄙视的青松和下面的深谷。
17. "Viking" provided tantalizing support on both sides of the question.
    “海盗”号再次给两方面都提供了似是而非的佐证。
18. Replicas of five tiny bronze figurines-dancers and musicians escorted by a jester-provide a tantalizing glimpse into Myanmar's ( Burma's) history.
    五个复制的小铜像与小丑一起的演奏者和舞蹈者勾起了我们对于缅甸历史的兴趣。
19. Half numbed by this tantalizing remark he walked slowly away, looking back at her over his shoulder.
    贾瑞听了，身上已木了半边，慢慢的一面走着，一面回过头来看。
20. The recent sequencing of the Neanderthal genome has provided tantalizing genetic clues pointing to differences in cranial and skeletal development between Neanderthals and modern humans.
    最近穴居人基因组测序提供了近在咫尺的基因线索，指出穴居人和现代人在头盖骨和骨骼发育方面的差异。
21. 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。
22. Alas, life is simply too full of tantalizing time-sucks.
    哎！生活的可悲仅在于太多的时间被浪费了。
23. Being nurtured now give us some tantalizing hints of what's to come.
    给我们提供了一些十分诱人的线索。
24. Come here for great dim sum and tantalizing cocktails.
    来到这里，为伟大的点心和诱人的鸡尾酒。
25. But the clues so far are tantalizing.
    但线索迄今尚不明朗。
26. A few tantalizing sips was all I had ever had, and certainly never my own bottle.
    我只是迫不及待地啜过几小口，从来没有自己喝过一瓶。
27. 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。
28. This was my first tantalizing glimpse of the islands.
    这是我第一眼看见的这些岛屿的动人美景。
29. It's cruel, really, to put tantalizing ideas on the table and then ask the audience to be satisfied with a shoot-out and a martial arts duel.
    这是残酷的，真实的，将诱人的主题摆到桌面上，然后要观众给枪法和打斗场面打分。

adj

1. very pleasantly inviting
   1. a tantalizing aroma
   2. a tempting repast

   Synonym:    tantalisingtempting

2. arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach
   1. a tantalizing taste of success

   Synonym:    tantalising