attract
- vt. 吸引;引起
- vi. 吸引;有吸引力
詞態(tài)變化
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中文詞源
前綴at-同ad-. 詞根tract, 拉,見tractor, 卡車。
英英釋意
- 1. direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes;
- "Her good looks attract the stares of many men"
- "The ad pulled in many potential customers"
- "This pianist pulls huge crowds"
- "The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers"
- 2. exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away;
- "the gravitational pull of a planet attracts other bodies"
- 3. be attractive to;
- "The idea of a vacation appeals to me"
- "The beautiful garden attracted many people"
英文詞源
- attract
- attract: [15] Etymologically, attract means literally ‘pull something towards one’. It comes from attract-, the past participial stem of the Latin verb attrahere, a compound formed from the prefix ad- ‘to’ and the verb trahere ‘pull’. It was quite a late formation, of around the mid 15th century, coined on the model of other English verbs, such as abstract and contract, deriving ultimately from Latin trahere.
=> abstract, contract, retract, subtract - attract (v.)
- early 15c., from Latin attractus, past participle of attrahere "to draw, pull; to attract," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + trahere "draw" (see tract (n.1)).
Originally a medical term for the body's tendency to absorb fluids, nourishment, etc., or for a poultice treatment to "draw out" diseased matter (1560s). Of the ability of people or animals to draw others to them, it is attested from 1560s; of physical forces (magnetism, etc.), from c. 1600 (implied in attraction). Related: Attracted; attracting.
同義詞辨析
attract, charm, enchant, fascinate, tempt
這些動詞均含有"吸引,引誘"之意。
attract:普通用詞,指客觀上吸引人的注意力。
charm:側(cè)重迷住某人或使之高興。
enchant:著重指有能力引起被迷住者的歡樂或贊美。
fascinate:通常含使人無法拒絕、無法擺脫的意味。
tempt:指吸引力很強(qiáng),強(qiáng)調(diào)欲望被喚醒。
考試真題
- Around 800 A.D., people in Central Asia managed to develop a new kind of carrot—a purple carrot—that attracted more interest from international traders.
出自-2017年6月聽力原文
- It is not likely to attract lots of investors and nerds.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- The radio business has changed greatly and now attracts more listeners.
出自-2014年6月閱讀原文
- The importance of non-financial firms will accordingly rise, along with their ability to attract the best talent.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- : What attracted the man to Nottingham University?
出自-2011年12月聽力原文
- To attract the attention from the media.
出自-2011年6月聽力原文
- But if aging were recognized as a disease, he said, "It would attract funding and change the way we do health care. What matters is understanding that aging is curable."
2017年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
- Somewhat nostalgically, he quotes John Maynard Keynes' justly famous words of praise to the bookstore: "One should enter it vaguely, almost in a dream, and allow what is there freely to attract and influence the eye."
2017年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B
- The health secretary said that the government already has plans to attract a more varied workforce into nursing.
2019年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A
- The world is dotted with futuristic, high-tech cities trying to attract the biggest international companies.
2019年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B
- They are not attracted to the rubbish dumps on their migration routes.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Landfill sites on the Iberian Peninsula have long attracted local white storks, but all of the Spanish birds tagged in the study flew across the Sahara Desert to the western Sahel.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- It also adds the element of artistic creativity to attract a new pool of students who may not see themselves as math people.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Elite high school math competitions are attracting more interest throughout the United States.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Teachers need to be much better paid to attract the best college graduates to the nation's worst schools.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- It helps attract investments in the company.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- They do not attract the media attention the high-risk group does.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- They attracted a lot of smokers.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- By the end of the decade, it's expected to be worth over $50 billion and generate 160 gigawatt-hours, enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- One reason any campaign wants a popular celebrity spokesperson is because kids are attracted to them no matter what they are doing.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文
- The power of such simple psychology in fighting climate change is attracting attention across the political establishment.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- Migrants to cities are attracted by plentiful jobs, access to hospitals and education, and the ability to escape the boredom of a farmer's agricultural life.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- His main thesis is that the buzz of urban life, and the opportunities it offers for co-operation and collaboration, is what attracts people to the city, which in turn makes cities into the engines of art, commerce, science and progress.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- They competed with one another to attract more customers.
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- In 2007, 623,805 of the world's brightest students were attracted to American universities.
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- Campuses willing to adopt convenient schedules along with more focused, less-expensive degrees may find that they have a competitive advantage in attracting bright, motivated students.
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- It is our responsibility to reach out and attract students to come to our kinds of places," he told a NEWSWEEK reporter.
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- Attract people to America's national parks.
出自-2013年6月聽力原文
- Parking rates will be attracted about $400 monthly or $25 per day, according to Ari Milstein, the director of planning for Automation Parking Systems, which is the U.S. subsidiary of a German company.
出自-2013年6月聽力原文
- It has attracted a lot of users
出自-2013年6月聽力原文
- It has attracted worldwide attention.
出自-2012年6月聽力原文
- What attracts people most in the Stray during the spring time?
出自-2012年6月聽力原文
- : What attracted the man to Nottingham University?
出自-2011年12月聽力原文
- Lower their prices to attract more customers.
出自-2011年6月聽力原文
- Speak loudly enough to attract attention
出自-2011年6月聽力原文
- By the end of the decade, it's expected to be worth over $50 billion and generate 160 gigawatt-hours, enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology.
2016年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C
- The quite dramatic unemployment figures, which we now see in some of the countries, strongly suggest that there will be greater pressure on wages in the future, as more people will be unemployed, more people will be looking for jobs and the pressure on em
2016年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section B
- These 18-hour cities are beginning to make waves in real estate rankings and attract more real estate investment.
2017年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C
- A railway link to Amsterdam in 1874 attracted rich traders from Amsterdam to Hilversum.
2015年高考英語湖北卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- Any smell might attract natural enemies that would try to eat the little comforting pats.
2016年高考英語四川卷 語法填空 原文
- Both the hand movements and the very idea of communicating without speaking attracted me.
2017年高考英語全國卷1 完形填空 原文
- California condors attract researchers' interest because they almost died out in the 1980s.
2016年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 題設(shè)
- California condors attract researchers' interest because they had to be bred in the wild.
2016年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 選項
- China today attracts a worldwide readership, which shows that more and more people all over the world want to learn about China.
2015年高考英語福建卷 單項填空 原文
- Even the youngest children in the class were attracted by the story.
2016年高考英語四川卷 完形填空 原文
- In ancient Egypt, a shopkeeper discovered that he could attract customers to his shop simply by making changes to its environment.
2015年高考英語重慶卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- It attracted a large number of visitors.
2019年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀B 選項
- It's partly true that Dickens' style of writing attracted audiences from all walks of life.
2018年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- Once called the garden of Amsterdam, it still attracts travelers to come over to cycle and walk through the surrounding forests.
2015年高考英語湖北卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- People believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands, commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain.
2014年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- Sports team owners spend millions of dollars attracting top talent.
2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 七選五 原文
- The concert was broadcast live and attracted the largest one night audience in the history of television up to that time.
2019年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 七選五 原文
- The happy ending of the story attracted him.
2015年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 選項
- They organized photo trips to attract more youngsters.
2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- They pump out perfumes designed to attract different insects who are natural enemies to the attackers.
2017年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- This creation attracted a lot of attention thanks to its mixture of modern and traditional Chinese elements.
2018年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- To select volunteers, you may need to understand the motivations of the people you wish to attract.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- You have probably heard that opposites attract but that similarities attract, too.
2015年高考英語上海卷 完形填空 原文
- You may find that your child is attracted by one more than another.
2014年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 七選五 原文
- "Young birds are often attracted to the warm road surface and get killed by the traffic." Biology student Hannah tells the broadcaster.
2019年高考英語全國卷I 聽力 原文
- And, unless banks carry toxic assets at prices that attract buyers, reviving the banking system will be difficult.
出自-2010年考研閱讀原文
- However, Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind, and while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone, in reality we are continually faced with a question: “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that? ”Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire, Allen concluded : “ We do not attract what we want, but what we are.
出自-2011年考研翻譯原文
- If Gilbert and the Philharmonic are to succeed, they must first change the relationship between America’s oldest orchestra and the new audience it hops to attract.
出自-2011年考研閱讀原文
- Bankers’ fat pay packets have attracted much criticism, but a public-sector system that does not reward high achievers may be a much bigger problem for America.
出自-2012年考研閱讀原文
- If Gilbert and the Philharmonic are to succeed, they must first change the relationship between America's oldest orchestra and the new audience it hopes to attract.
2011年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- When women do break through to the summit of corporate power—as, for example, Sheryl Sandberg recently did at Facebook—they attract massive attention precisely because they remain the exception to the rule.
2013年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
實用場景例句
- This proposal has attracted a lot of interest .
- 這個提案引起了很大的興趣。
牛津詞典
- His comments were bound to attract criticism .
- 他的說話必然會招致批評。
牛津詞典
- She tried to attract the attention of the waiter.
- 她試圖引起服務(wù)員的注意。
牛津詞典
- What first attracted me to her was her sense of humour.
- 她首先吸引我的是她的幽默感。
牛津詞典
- The warm damp air attracts a lot of mosquitoes.
- 溫暖潮濕的空氣招來了大量蚊子。
牛津詞典
- The exhibition has attracted thousands of visitors.
- 展覽吸引了成千上萬的參觀者。
牛津詞典
- I had always been attracted by the idea of working abroad.
- 我總是向往去國外工作。
牛津詞典
- Anything with strong gravity attracts other things to it.
- 任何有較強(qiáng)重力的物體都會對其他物體產(chǎn)生引力。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- Opinion polls suggest that the two rebels have attracted a lot of sympathy.
- 民意測驗顯示兩名反對者獲得了大量支持。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- The Cardiff Bay project is attracting many visitors...
- 加的夫海灣項目吸引了眾多游客。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- Warm weather has attracted the flat fish close to shore...
- 煦暖的氣候?qū)⒈饶眶~引到了近海。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- He wasn't sure he'd got it right, although the theory attracted him by its logic...
- 該理論的邏輯性吸引了他,但他不能確定自己的理解是否正確。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- What first attracted me to her was her incredible experience of life...
- 她離奇的人生經(jīng)歷最先吸引了我。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- In spite of her hostility, she was attracted to him...
- 盡管自己心存敵意,她還是為他所吸引。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- I was married to a man who had ceased to attract me.
- 我嫁給了一個我已不再鐘情的男人。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- President Mwinyi said his country would also like to attract investment from private companies...
- 姆維尼總統(tǒng)說他的國家同樣愿意吸收來自私營公司的投資。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- The designer put a steamship model on the desk and asked the assistants to approach.
- 設(shè)計師把一個蒸汽輪船的模型放在桌上,招呼助手們走近.
期刊摘選
- This new film will attract the crowds, whatever its quality, provided that it gets played up in the right way.
- 如果廣告做得好,那么, 無論這部新片子的質(zhì)量如何, 都會吸引許多觀眾的.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- She shouted to attract their attention.
- 她大聲叫嚷以引起他們的注意.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- This advertisement is calculated to attract the attention of housewives.
- 這個廣告旨在吸引家庭主婦們的注意力.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- The presider intended to open with an important piece of news in order to attract the attention of the reporters present.
- 主持人準(zhǔn)備挑一項重要新聞作為開場白,以引起與會記者的注意.
《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
- They should attract foreign investment.
- 他們應(yīng)吸引外資.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- The bird swelled out its chest to attract the attention of the female.
- 那鳥兒把胸脯鼓起來吸引雌鳥.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- Top of the range Scotches attract a fanatical following among whisky buffs.
- 頂級蘇格蘭威士忌在威士忌酒酒迷中吸引了一批狂熱的擁躉.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- I clapped to attract the children's attention.
- 我拍手以引起孩子們的注意.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- The race organizers are trying to attract sponsors.
- 比賽的組織者在想方設(shè)法吸引贊助者。
《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》