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Change log entry 58934
Processed by: ycandau (2015-10-13 12:28:27 UTC)
Comment: << review queue entry 56199 - submitted by 'richwarm' >>
"give up" is quite ambiguous.
Main senses include "cease making an effort" and "admit defeat".
But these senses are not relevant here, as far as I can tell.

观众明明知道这些电影有可能将你吓得灵魂出窍,仍然欲罢不能。
The audience clearly knows that the movie might scare them silly, but they can't stop watching.

謝幕半小時還欲罷不能。
They took their bows for half an hour, and the applause had not yet finished.

台下以親友為主的觀眾欲罷不能,安可曲選的是台灣小調「望春風」,更讓觀眾貼心。
The audience, mostly made up of friends and family, can't get enough, and call for an encore. The encore piece is the Taiwan melody "Adolescent Longing," a familiar and heartwarming choice.

但是「補」風卻愈演愈烈,欲罷不能。
Nevertheless, attendance at buxibans continues to irresistably rise.

開館至今,將近一年的時間,打算「給朱銘美術館一點顏色瞧瞧」的莊明旗,欲罷不能,他的「植被藝術」,由本館外牆,一路畫到了水泥步道,還有餐廳的牆面
It has been a year since the museum first opened its doors, and Chuang has actually finished with the wall, but he can't seem to stop; his project just keeps expanding, and has now spilled over onto the concrete walkways and the walls of the museum cafeteria.

每次簽名會,熱情的讀者欲罷不能,有一次還出動十六名公安來維持秩序。

但越寫越有勁,欲罷不能,甚至意猶未盡。

酒癮的定義是什麼?為什麼酒癮患者會喝酒上癮、欲罷不能呢?
What is the definition of addiction to alcohol? Why is it that some people become addicted and cannot stop?

而且至今六年多,越走越投入,幾乎已欲罷不能。
Over the last six years, they have thrown themselves into carving more and more. It has gotten to the point where they can't stop themselves.

吳卿談起這群「寵物」,簡直欲罷不能:
Wu just can't contain himself when he gets going about his "pets":

而藝評家論起他的藝術成就卻都侃侃而談,欲罷不能,而且儘是些他聽不懂的專業術語
The art critics, by contrast, just kept talking and talking, throwing out all sorts of jargon that Wu didn't understand.

前幾天,父子倆討論「原子論」,談到三更半夜欲罷不能。
A few days ago, they were discussing atomic theory, and couldn't stop talking about it well into the night.

每天都跳得滿頭大汗,欲罷不能。
They danced every day until they were dripping with sweat. No one wanted to stop.

連魏德聖都不知為何會有這種欲罷不能的強大感染效果!
Even Wei can't put a finger on the source of its relentless and contagious power to in the crowds.

他看的欲罷不能,連看10遍,也認真研讀陳凱歌的劇本。
Yang was enraptured, watching the film 10 times in succession and diligently studying Chen's script.

但更多的是讀到欲罷不能的兩岸讀者,為此,陳若曦又深感欣慰。
She is most deeply gratified to know, however, that readers on both sides of the Taiwan Strait have found her book to be thoroughly riveting and indispensible.

這場題為「建構國家競爭力」的演講,欲罷不能地直延續到七點半。
[On a late afternoon in early April, the day after spring vacation ended, cabinet members and other high-level officials gathered in the meeting hall of the Executive Yuan to attend a lecture by a foreign expert. ...]
His talk on "Raising National Competitiveness" wouldn't end until 7:30.
Diff:
- 欲罷不能 欲罢不能 [yu4 ba4 bu4 neng2] /want to stop but can't (idiom, from Analects); find it impossible to give up/
# + 欲罷不能 欲罢不能 [yu4 ba4 bu4 neng2] /want to stop but can't (idiom, from "The Analects"); to be unable to stop oneself/to feel an urge to continue/
# + 欲罷不能 欲罢不能 [yu4 ba4 bu4 neng2] /want to stop but can't (idiom)/to be unable to stop oneself/to feel an urge to continue/
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