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Feb 16, 2009. #3. I agree with sound shift. "fascination of" seems to imply that you are talking about the snakes being fascinating, rather than him being fascinated with them. (if that makes any sense!) "fascination for" sounds OK but I think "with" is by far the best option.
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Tamil. Mar 11, 2017. #4. I'd use "by" in that sentence but you're more likely to hear: The film I saw yesterday was fascinating. Both "fascinated by" and "fascinated with" can be used depending on the sentence. I can't think of a context in which "fascinated about" might be used. E.
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2019年2月16日 · The two senses of fascination each take a different preposition. A person has a fascination with something they are very interested in (her fascination with the royal family), whereas something interesting holds a fascination for a person (words have always held a fascination for me). The Oxford English Corpus shows that the distinction is ...
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2009年7月28日 · New Mexico, USA. USA/English. Jul 28, 2009. #2. These two phrases are both correct - and really are context driven as to which is the better choice for the context. I would say: It's fascinating for me in a situation where I am describing an experience I have had, or will have again. Such as, It's fascinating for me to watch my baby begin to walk.
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Jul 2, 2017. #2. thetazuo said: Jon Snow was staring at him, a look equal parts horror and fascination. equal parts = adjective + noun. This is ellipsis. The whole sentence is probably. "Jon Snow was staring at him with a look that comprised/combined equal parts of horror and fascination." As "to stare", in your sentence, is intransitive " with ...
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2006年6月10日 · Hola, Por favor ayudeme con este cita: photographer Philippe Halsman: "The fascination with the human face has never left me... Every face I see seems to hide - and sometimes fleetingly to reveal - the mystery of another human being. Capturing this revelation became my goal and...
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2019年8月11日 · There's overlap with these two words. The essential difference is that captivate has more to do with keeping people's attention, and fascinate has more to do with impressing people, causing them to be curious, and causing them to be very interested. You could look both words up in the dictionary to understand the difference between the two in a ...
church pomp had an irresistible fascination for him
English. Aug 14, 2007. #1. This comes from Chronicle of Death Foretold near the beginning in the sentence 'Santiago Nasar knew it was true, but church pomp had an irresistible fascination for him'. My guess is that it might be that the gaudy displays (pomp) were set up for him (to have an irrisistible fascination).
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2023年4月6日 · a person or thing that is spectacularly unsuccessful or disordered, especially one that is a source of peculiar fascination. "this outfit is definitely a hot mess" WHAT DOES HOT MESS MEAN? You might be hot and you might be a mess, but are you a hot mess? Hot mess is used to describe a particularly disorganized person or chaotic situation.
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2021年9月25日 · [New and emerging technologies often introduce both fascination and frustration with users. ] in the dictionary, 'introduce something to somebody' is the correct expression. Is the sentence above grammatically correct?