the attractive and exciting quality that makes a person, a job or a place seem special, often because of wealth or status 吸引力，魅力，誘惑力（多因財富或地位所致） hopeful young actors dazzled by the glamour of Hollywood 充滿希望的年輕演員被好萊塢的魅力沖昏了頭腦 Now that she's a flight attendant, foreign travel has lost its glamour for her. 她現在是空中乘務員了，去國外旅行對她已失去吸引力。 Ireland's top fashion model added a touch of glamour to the event. 愛爾蘭的頂級時裝模特爲活動增添了一絲魅力。
Extra ExamplesTopics Clothes and Fashionc1Jumbo jets somehow lack the glamour of the transatlantic liner. 搭大型噴氣式飛機不像乘橫渡大西洋的客輪那麽有誘惑力。 Hopeful young actors are drawn by the glamour of Hollywood. 滿懷希望的年輕演員爲好萊塢的魅力所吸引。 Several film stars were invited to add a touch of glamour to the occasion. 幾位電影明星被邀請來爲該活動增添亮點。
Oxford Collocations Dictionary… of glamour- touch
- have
- lack
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- a certain glamour
physical beauty that also suggests wealth or success （暗示財富或成功的）迷人的美，魅力 Her long dark hair lent her a certain glamour. 她長長的黑發爲她增添了一種魅力。
Oxford Collocations Dictionary… of glamour- touch
- have
- lack
- add
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- a certain glamour
Word Originearly 18th cent. (originally Scots in the sense ‘enchantment, magic’): alteration of grammar. Although grammar itself was not used in this sense, the Latin word grammatica (from which it derives) was often used in the Middle Ages to mean ‘scholarship, learning’, including the occult practices popularly associated with learning.