英语词汇fascinate的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	fascinate
词源	fascinate. Ben Jonson first recorded the word fascinate in his play Every Man in his Humour (1598), which had in the cast Shakespeare, who would fascinate the world forever. The word derives from the Latin fascinum, “a spell,” and meant in Jonson’s time “to literally case a spell by means of the evil eye,” not tak- ing on its present meaning, “to be irresistibly attractive,” for an- other half century. See also fairy rings.
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