intrigue
verb- [transitive]
to make somebody very interested and want to know more about something 激起…的兴趣；引发…的好奇心 - intrigue somebody
The idea intrigued her. 这个想法引起了她的兴趣。 You've really intrigued me—tell me more! 你说的真有意思，再给我讲一些吧！ There was something about him that intrigued her. 他有种特质令她着迷。 - it intrigues somebody that…
It intrigues me that no one appears to have thought of this before. 令我感兴趣的是，似乎以前没有人想到这一点。
- intrigue somebody
- [intransitive] intrigue (with somebody) (against somebody) (formal)
to secretly plan with other people to harm somebody 秘密策划（加害他人）；密谋
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘deceive, cheat’): from French intrigue ‘plot’, intriguer ‘to tangle, to plot’, via Italian from Latin intricare, from in- ‘into’ + tricae ‘tricks, perplexities’.Sense (1) of the verb, which was influenced by a later French sense “to puzzle, make curious”, arose in the late 19th cent.