tantalize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To tease (someone) by offering or showing them something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied. transitive
    — They could not bear to be tantalized nor tortured by the splendid delusion.
  2. To be teased by something desirable that is kept out of reach. intransitive,obsolete
    — The poore people in Corinth did ſee, and ſmell, vvhat the rich men taſted, Tantalizing all the vvhile, and having their penury doubled by the Antiperiſtaſis of others plenty[…]

词形变化

tantalizes present,singular,third-person tantalizing participle,present tantalized participle,past tantalized past tantalise alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
tantalization tantalizer
相关词
tantalizing

词源

From Tantalus (Ancient Greek Τάνταλος (Tántalos)) in Greek mythology, who was condemned to Tartarus in the underworld. There, he had to stand for eternity in water that receded from him when he stooped to drink, beneath fruit trees whose branches were always out of reach. Derived as Tantalus + -ize.
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