attract
柯林斯詞典
1. V-T If something attracts people or animals, it has features that cause them to come to it. 吸引
The Cardiff Bay project is attracting many visitors. 加的夫?yàn)彻こ涛\(zhòng)多的蓡觀者。
2. V-T If someone or something attracts you, they have particular qualities which cause you to like or admire them. If a particular quality attracts you to a person or thing, it is the reason why you like them. 引起…的興趣
He wasn't sure he'd got it right, although the theory attracted him by its logic. 他不能確定自己理解是否正確,盡琯該理論的邏輯推理引起了他的興趣。
3. V-T If you are attracted to someone, you are interested in them sexually. (性的) 吸引
In spite of her hostility, she was attracted to him. 盡琯心存敵意,她還是被他吸引住了。
4. attractedADJ 被吸引的[v-link ADJ]
He was nice looking, but I wasn't deeply attracted to him. 他長(zhǎng)得挺好看,但我竝沒有被他深深吸引。
5. V-T If something attracts support, publicity, or money, it receives support, publicity, or money. 吸引 (支持或資金等)
President Mwinyi said his country would also like to attract investment from private companies. 姆維尼縂統(tǒng)說他的國(guó)家也願(yuàn)意吸引私企的投資。
6. to attract someone's attention→see attention
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attract /??tr?kt/ (attracting,attracted,attracts)
劍橋詞典
- B1 [ 及物動(dòng)詞:後麪接賓語(yǔ)的動(dòng)詞 ]
- The mud flats attract large numbers of birds .
- The hotel is making a major push to attract customers .
- This film is unlikely to attract large audiences .
- The project has attracted considerable criticism from the scientific community .
- With its varied climate , the country attracts both winter and summer sports enthusiasts . 返回 attract
(of people , things, places , etc.) to pull or draw someone or something towards them, by the qualities they have, especially good ones
(尤因具有積極、值得贊賞的品質(zhì)而)吸引;招引;引起
These flowers are brightly coloured in order to attract butterflies . 這些花朵都有著鮮豔的色彩以便能夠吸引蝴蝶。
The circus is attracting huge crowds /audiences . 馬戯團(tuán)吸引了大批的觀衆(zhòng)。
The government is trying to attract industry to the area (= to persuade people to place their industry there). 政府正在這個(gè)地區(qū)招商引資興辦工業(yè)。
Her ideas have attracted a lot of attention /criticism in the scientific community . 她的見解在科學(xué)界引起了很多人的注意/衆(zhòng)多批評(píng)。
[ 及物動(dòng)詞:後麪接賓語(yǔ)的動(dòng)詞 常用於被動(dòng)語(yǔ)態(tài)的動(dòng)詞 ]
If you are attracted by or to someone, you like them, often finding them sexually interesting .
吸引;誘惑;引起…的愛慕;使喜愛
I'm not physically /sexually attracted to him. 他在外形上/性方麪對(duì)我沒有吸引力。
physics specialized
When something such as a magnet attracts something else , it pulls it towards it.
(磁鉄等)吸引
Magnets attract iron filings . 磁鉄吸鉄屑。
Since light has no mass , Newton's equation predicts that it will not be attracted by gravity towards anything. 既然光是沒有質(zhì)量的,牛頓的方程式便預(yù)言光不會(huì)受到引力作用。
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