2019-08-27 magnet

英英释义：something or someone that attracts many people or things 

“magnet”是可数名词，本意是“磁铁”，可以引申为“有吸引力的人或事物”，可以用 magnet 替换 attraction。

英文中另一个词也可以表示同样的意思：Mecca。Mecca 的本意是伊斯兰圣城的名字“麦加”，引申义同 magnet，这两个词可以放在一起来掌握。

sentence

1. Shenzhen has become a magnet for college graduates from across the country.

2. Bike-sharing startups used to act as a magnet for investors from far and wide. 

3. The East Village of New York City has long been a magnet for aspiring artists from all over the world. 

4. By contrast, despite its faults, California remains a magnet for highly educated migrants and a formidable factory of talent and ideas—which is why it has produced Google, Facebook, Tesla, Uber and Netflix and why, despite grumblings about creeping socialism, the big venture-capital firms and Hollywood studios stay. 

5. China’s southernmost province of Hainan is a tropical tourist-magnet of white-sand beaches, mountains and rainforests.

6. London is Britain's economic and cultural powerhouse, Europe's only properly global city and a magnet for rich and poor, from anywhere and everywhere. 

7. In some places, the refugees boost local businesses and act as a magnet for foreign aid. 

practice

好莱坞一直像磁石般吸引着追名逐利的人们。

Hollywood has long been a magnet for people chasing fame and wealth.

参考翻译：Hollywood has always acted as a magnet for people seeking fame and fortune.