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单词 intriguing
释义
intriguing
(ɪntrgɪŋ )
adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
If you describe something as intriguing, you mean that it is interesting or strange.
This intriguing book is both thoughtful and informative.
Synonyms: interesting, fascinating, absorbing, exciting  
intriguingly adverb [ADVERB adjective, ADVERB with verb]
...the intriguingly-named newspaper Le Canard Enchainé (The Chained Duck).
Collocations:
intriguing concept
What could be an intriguing concept never takes off.
Times, Sunday Times
For starters, an initially intriguing concept never adds up.
Houston Chronicle
But every so often an intriguing concept will resurface.
Globe and Mail
Make learning about these intriguing concepts your first priority and you'll make the best of this informative, but hectic, week.
Times, Sunday Times
Knowing that, resist the temptation to turn even intriguing concepts into solid plans.
Times, Sunday Times
intriguing detail
This week there was a more intriguing detail on view.
Times,Sunday Times
There was, however, also some intriguing detail in the labour market numbers.
Times, Sunday Times
The book contains some intriguing details.
The Times Literary Supplement
intriguing element
Indeed, the spaces themselves - cluttered, dusty, neat, lived in - are the most intriguing element here.
The Times Literary Supplement
However, the most intriguing element was the lack of finality in some of the other conversations.
Times, Sunday Times
But there are several intriguing elements to the current situation.
Times, Sunday Times
The most intriguing elements of the package lie elsewhere.
Times, Sunday Times
Despite such intriguing elements, nothing helps the piece to cohere as either narrative or dramatic abstraction.
Times, Sunday Times
intriguing experiment
Just as an intriguing experiment into what manner of psychological knock-on effects this might have, over a few generations?
Times, Sunday Times
It reminds me of a small but intriguing experiment done some years ago, that illustrated the sheer physical power of imagination.
Times, Sunday Times
It was far out, in truth — an intriguing experiment — and ever drifting farther.
Times, Sunday Times
Introducing elements of the reality show to a more public-health-minded series has been an intriguing experiment, but the breezy format lends itself to rather bland generalities, despite the individual stories.
Times, Sunday Times
intriguing mix
Dotted among cosy bars, old-school corner shops and car repair garages, it's an intriguing mix of grit, glamour and mind-boggling views.
Times, Sunday Times
Visitors will find an intriguing mix.
Times, Sunday Times
At least two dozen players must reckon they have a chance of lifting the trophy, and they offer an intriguing mix of the world's best and some determined aspirants.
Times, Sunday Times
It will be an intriguing mix of two ferociously bright people.
Times, Sunday Times
You are an intriguing mix of clever ideas and daring actions - a blend people find so good.
The Sun
intriguing mystery
She also had an extraordinary childhood that harboured an intriguing mystery she managed to solve only in her mid-sixties.
Times, Sunday Times
The first series was top-rate television, with brilliant characters and an intriguing mystery.
The Sun
Nothing quite like it has been seen before and, as scientists scrutinise its origins, they believe that it might help to solve one of the cosmos's most intriguing mysteries.
Times,Sunday Times
But what no one expected to find the intriguing mysteries that accompanied their tomb robbing adventure - just who was the owner of that tomb?
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intriguing option
So, first gather your wits, then explore the seriously intriguing options coming your way.
Times, Sunday Times
Actually, you've all sorts of intriguing options to explore, but simply haven't had the time.
Times,Sunday Times
You have some intriguing options to think about, which must be your priority.
Times, Sunday Times
It's only when you begin reviewing these that you realise there's a world of intriguing options just waiting for you to explore them.
Times, Sunday Times
While you already have some intriguing options to think about, there are far more to come.
Times, Sunday Times
intriguing parallel
He overlooks an intriguing parallel between them and the first two of their predecessors.
The Times Literary Supplement
As intriguing shapes and patterns they are inspiring architects to create new structures on a large scale and intriguing parallels have emerged between the nano and macro worlds.
Times, Sunday Times
Intriguing parallels to and sharp differences from the d-block elements have emerged.
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intriguing prospect
Another exhibition blending architectural skills with artistic flair, and another intriguing prospect for this subterranean space.
Times, Sunday Times
Which raises the intriguing prospect of a worthy scribe creating dramas for the man who created detective drama himself.
Times, Sunday Times
Still, her exit raises an intriguing prospect: her replacement.
Times, Sunday Times
The encounter seems an intriguing prospect.
The Sun
Its maker's announcement of a planned sequel conjures up an intriguing prospect.
Times, Sunday Times
intriguing puzzle
Each jigsaw can be centred on the postcode of your choice, providing a unique and intriguing puzzle that will test your local knowledge.
Times, Sunday Times
The future of the back row remains an intriguing puzzle that he has not yet solved.
Times, Sunday Times
It's an intriguing puzzle to unravel, and one that includes a fair dose of behind-the-scenes soap opera.
Times, Sunday Times
What appears to be an intriguing puzzle box of a play turns out to be disappointingly empty.
Times, Sunday Times
intriguing story
The movie verges on the sentimental at times, but incredible effects complement an intriguing story.
The Sun
How refreshing, then, to encounter an intriguing story, handsomely told.
Times, Sunday Times
However, the size of the collection, the coins' exceptional condition and the intriguing story behind them helped to boost the value.
Times, Sunday Times
A superb cast and an intriguing story line.
Times, Sunday Times
She tells an intriguing story of being in the desert with special forces who were doing 'pointy-end things'.
Times, Sunday Times
intriguing subject
An intriguing subject, if an occasionally slight drama.
Times, Sunday Times
In any case, it's an intriguing subject.
Times, Sunday Times
She makes an intriguing subject on the ground of her unconventional social life alone.
Times, Sunday Times
Thus perished all traces of the snouters, their unique ecosystem, and all the world's specialists on that intriguing subject -- who happened to be holding their congress there at the time.
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intriguing tale
The first episode sees him investigate bananas that grow in ice before telling an intriguing tale about cars that roll uphill.
The Sun
It was an intriguing tale with any number of different angles and a definite feelgood factor.
Times, Sunday Times
Maybe begins as an intriguing tale of passion dying, but it quickly slips into easy listening schmaltz.
Times, Sunday Times
The ending hasn't yet been written for this intriguing tale of ideals and ambition meeting hard realities.
Times, Sunday Times
intriguing theory
While speaking to locals, they happened upon an intriguing theory.
Times, Sunday Times
He has an intriguing theory as to why her cover was so carelessly constructed.
Times, Sunday Times
Certainly, there are intriguing theories.
Times, Sunday Times
particularly intriguing
Particularly intriguing are the planets found around double or even multiple stars.
Times, Sunday Times
The care given to that puppy to nurse it through illness was particularly intriguing to the researchers who discovered it.
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While these characters are well drawn, they are not, despite an unpredictable plot, particularly intriguing.
The Times Literary Supplement
It's particularly intriguing that, for the first time, the suspects all openly know one another - they're old school friends and were together on the night of the crime.
The Sun
A particularly intriguing component in the engine bay was a mechanical self-cleaning oil filter.
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Translations:
Chinese: 新奇的
Japanese: 興味をそそるような
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