tantalize

• vt.からかう；不安にさせる
• vi. からかう；不安にさせる

ラテン語のTantalusから、ギリシャ語のTantalosに由来する、古代ギリシャ神話の人物。伝説によれば、彼は古代ギリシャの都市国家フリギアの王であり、人間界におけるゼウスの隠し子であった。彼を罰するために、水の波がちょうど顎に届くような深い水のプールで鉄の鎖に縛り付け、彼が水を飲もうと下を向くと水が流れ去り、新鮮な果実が彼の額にぶら下がり、果実を食べようと首を傾げると果実の枝が振り払われた。この言葉の意味はそこからきている。

tantalize

tantalize: [16] The verb tantalize was inspired by the sad story of Tantalus, a mythical king of Phrygia in the ancient world. He had displeased the gods in some way (versions differ as to how, the commonest being that he had stolen their food), and as a punishment he was condemned to stand for ever in water up to his chin, while overhead hung boughs laden with fruit: whenever he stooped to drink, the water disappeared, and when he tried to reach the fruit, the wind blew it away. The term tantalus, coined in the 19th century for a lockable decanter stand whose contents can be seen but not got at, preserves the same idea.

tantalize (v.)

1590s, with -ize + Latin Tantalus, from Greek Tantalos, king of Phrygia, son of Zeus, father of Pelops and Niobe, punished in the afterlife (for an offense variously given) by being made to stand in a river up to his chin, under branches laden with fruit, all of which withdrew from his reach whenever he tried to eat or drink. His story was known to Chaucer (c. 1369). Related: Tantalized; tantalizing; tantalizingly; tantalization.

1. The boy would come into the room and tantalize the dog with his feed.

その男の子は部屋に来てドッグフードを持って犬をからかう。

2.Give the dog the bone do not tantalize him.

その骨をその犬にあげましょう--焦らせないで。

3.Give the dog the bone don 't tantalize him.

その骨をその犬にあげましょう。焦らせないで。

4.They make use the opportunity and tantalize the apetite by pointing the difficulty of satisfaction.

政治家は、他人の欠乏状態を利用して、苦境を作って彼らの欲望を刺激する。

5.It 's not her purpose to tantalize that guy，he is too banas，not her type.

彼女はその男を怒らせるつもりはなく、彼は気が狂って彼女が望んでいるタイプではない。