charming的意思|charming的解释-里氏词典

charming ['tʃɑ:miŋ]

a. 迷人的, 有吸引力的

I found Susan a very charming person.
我发现苏珊是个非常可爱的人。
My husband was handsome, spontaneous and charming in his youth.
我丈夫年轻时英俊、诚挚、富有魅力。
The picture showed a charming pastoral scene of cows drinking from a stream.
这幅画表现了牛在溪边饮水的迷人的田园风光。

charming

[ adj ]

pleasing or delighting

<adj.all>

endowed with charming manners

a charming little cottage

a charming personality

possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers

<adj.all>

charming incantations

magic signs that protect against adverse influence

a magical spell

'tis now the very witching time of night

wizard wands

wizardly powers

Charming \Charm"ing\, a.
Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting;
fascinating; attractive.

How charming is divine philosophy. --Milton.

Syn: Syn. - Enchanting; bewitching; captivating; enrapturing;
alluring; fascinating; delightful; pleasurable;
graceful; lovely; amiable; pleasing; winning. --
{Charm"ing*ly}, adv. -- {Charm"ing*ness}, n.

Charm \Charm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Charmed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Charming}.] [Cf. F. charmer. See {Charm}, n.]
1. To make music upon; to tune. [Obs. & R.]

Here we our slender pipes may safely charm.
--Spenser.

2. To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or
supernatural influence; to affect by magic.

No witchcraft charm thee! --Shak.

3. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that
which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.

Music the fiercest grief can charm. --Pope.

4. To attract irresistibly; to delight exceedingly; to
enchant; to fascinate.

They, on their mirth and dance
Intent, with jocund music charm his ear. --Milton.

5. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms,
or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life.

I, in my own woe charmed,
Could not find death. --Shak.

Syn: Syn. - To fascinate; enchant; enrapture; captivate;
bewitch; allure; subdue; delight; entice; transport.

And their manners: each one appeared to have mastered the art of being polite without aloofness, charming without unction. The dress code of the evening was smart by most standards, but casual according to Eton rubric.
Director Joe Mantello allows the charming Melissa Joan Hart, who plays the the teen-age Valerie, to rush through her monologue, making some of it unintelligible.
Despite all this, Mr. Icahn can be disarmingly charming and witty.
His octet Twilight Music, plainer still on the surface, makes charming play with ancient Celtic jigs, in which Nona Lidell's fiddle struck all the right notes.
As her correspondence bears all the charming acuity of her best fiction, "The Letters of Edith Wharton" (Scribner's, 654 pages, $29.95) is a valuable literary chronicle.
At other times he can be charming and humorous.
O'Toole is characteristically dissolute and charming, maintaining his legendary poise even in a film that sends him to Hell and back.
She was so charming.
The French can be arrogant, unhelpful and apparently unfriendly. Two minutes later they can be humorous, and charming.
However charming or salient the digressions may be individually, after a while each new one elicits a little silent groan, as we realize that the outcome of the story is being postponed yet again.
Frost sorts the case out with unruffled style, remaining charming, principled and well-mannered to the end.
In person, he is disarmingly charming.
Not a charming situation, and one that led to bombs, shooting on Tbilisi's lovely Rustaveli Prospect, and deaths by the hundreds.
The original and charming line drawings are retained while the text is enlarged pleasingly, revised thoroughly and includes extra chapters cut from the paperback. Gift market books have grown up this year.
Mrs Pamela Harriman (born to a noble English family, formerly Mrs Randolph Churchill, formerly married to Leland Hayward, the Broadway producer, and widow of that great statesman Averell Harriman) is much more than the most charming and grandest of dames.
But his conversation is relaxed, his manner unthreatened, his smile as dangerously charming as ever. It comes into play right at the outset, as he starts the interview by attacking his critics.
"You get real contact," he said to me, "when you play a phrase and somebody sighs." The public "I love you madly" Ellington kept charming the audiences because he felt that was one way to show his gratitude that they were there.
But his bouncy, quilted and flowered new versions of the happy peasant look were a charming update.
This Cleve, the one who can convince himself that he's only doing his job, can be so charming he can sweet-talk his way into old ladies' houses at night.
But your average softball fanatic regards those divergences from the norm as incidental, and even charming.
When explaining a difficult idea he has a charming way of adding 'don't you think?', as if he were talking to Einstein. After he settled down I asked him why arts and sciences had become divorced. 'One answer is that science is jolly difficult.
Mr. Blackburn, who is 48 and a lawyer by training, is gregarious and charming.
Then, demonstrating an almost charming chutzpah, he called on a group of American businessmen to use their influence to improve the climate.
G Badriou may sound like a charming one-man band, but I bet it is one of many names used by a pretty big bottling plant that ships in wine by tanker from all over France.
During his Washington tenure, the tall, rotund Dobrynin gained a reputation as a charming but tough diplomat and a skillful chess player.
They do not, however, stop it from being the usual charming anti-climax.
Modestly made - neither the sound-recording nor the photography will win Oscars - but funny, charming and laudably interracial.
Valerian remembers him as "charming and likable.
How it is possible to stage Saint-Saens' witty, charming, infinitely felicitous score without a single atom of its many virtues rubbing off on to the dance, I do not know, but Mr Araiz has succeeded.
Alas, it proved the epitome of dinginess and meagre spirits, a terrible contrast with the fiesta in the streets. There is no doubt that a modern Belloc would have put up 300 yards away in the entirely charming Conde Aznar.

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