English Dictionary

mesmerize

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmɛzməɹaɪz/

動詞

To exercise mesmerism on; to affect another person, such as to heal or soothe, through the use of animal magnetism. / To spellbind; to enthrall.

日本語の意味

魅了する（心を奪い、虜にする） / 催眠状態に陥れる（特定の魅力や力で心を操る）

On stage, the charismatic performer could mesmerize an audience with nothing but a fixed gaze.

舞台上で、その魅力的なパフォーマーは、じっとした視線だけで観客全員に催眠術をかけることができた。

意味（1）

To exercise mesmerism on; to affect another person, such as to heal or soothe, through the use of animal magnetism.

Mesmer had about a hundred people whom he had instructed as magnetisers, some of whom belonged to the nobility, who also mesmerised people by making passes over the affected parts of the body.

意味（2）

To spellbind; to enthrall.

Then he commenced to talk, really talk, and inside of two flaps of a herring’s fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt’s boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.

mesmerizes （ present singular third-person ）

mesmerizing （ participle present ）

mesmerized （ participle past ）

mesmerized （ past ）