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attract/attraction/attractive/attractively

What do they mean?

attract吸引verb

attract表示“引起人或動物的興趣，使其願意接近某人或物”。

to attract someone’s attention表示“使某人對……留意”。

• Mary waved her napkin to attract the waiter’s attention.

瑪麗揮舞着餐巾吸引侍應注意。

attraction吸引；吸引力noun

用作不可數名詞時，attraction指“能吸引別人的行為或能力”；用作可數名詞時，它指“吸引物”或“誘惑物”。

• I don’t understand the attraction of reading books on an electronic device.

我不明白用電子產品讀書有何吸引力。

• Some of the attractions, such as the funfair, are closed during the winter months.

一些有趣景點，比如嘉年華會，在冬天就會結束。

attractive吸引；有魅力的adjective

attractive形容“某人或物十分好看”；也形容“某人喜歡的東西或極想做的事”。反義詞為unattractive。

• The school is trying to make science subjects more attractive to students.

學校努力使理科課程更能吸引學生。

attractively具有吸引力；引人注目adverb

attractively表示“某事做出來的效果很好看”。

• Alice arranged the flowers attractively in a large glass vase.

愛麗斯插了一大瓶漂亮的花。

Fill in the blanks.

1　Tom was an_______baby but he has grown up to be a handsome man.

2　The main_______of the job is the short working hours.

3　The cakes were_______displayed in the shop window.

4　I swept up the crumbs so that they would not_______mice.