释义 |
tantalization|ˌtæntəlaɪˈzeɪʃən| [f. next + -ation.] The action of tantalizing or fact of being tantalized.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. xv. 253 Poor Rosinant..whose paines and Tantalizations..were more irksome to the beast, than all his other out-ridings. 1821Blackw. Mag. X. 729 The delay and tantalization is horrific. 1849C. Brontë Shirley I. viii. 225 Rose had no idea of tantalization, or she would have held him awhile in doubt. 1931H. S. Walpole Judith Paris iv. 678 From that misery of tantalization he had died. 1983Listener 28 July 32/3 The human frame is just not conditioned to support such stupendous tantalisation. |