charm

vt.
1. cast spells upon,put under the influence of a spell对…施行魔法，把…放在符咒的魔力之下。
△H.V.2.Cho.38: “charming the Narrow Seas/To give you gentlepass；”念咒作法，使得（英吉利）海峡风平浪静，让你们往返无恙。
2. subdue as if with a magic spell （像用魔咒似的）镇住
△Ado.5.1.26: “Charm ache with air,and agonywith words.”用空话镇住痛楚，用言语止住痛苦。
△Oth.5.2. 181 (183):“Go to,charm your tongue.”好了，闭上你的嘴。
3. control or silence as if with a magic spell（像使用魔咒似的）镇住，使沉默。
△Oth.5.2.181 (183): “Go to,charm your tongue.”好了，闭上你的嘴。
△Otn.5.2.182(184): “I will not charm my tongue; I am bound tospeak.”我偏不闭嘴；我一定得说。
△2H.VI.4.1.63:“Thishand of mine hath writ in thy behalf,/And thereforeshall it charm thy riotous tongue.”我这只手曾经为你写过推荐信，所以它就能使你这放肆的舌头默不作声。
charm one’s tongue: silence ...使沉默。
△3H.VI.5.5.31:“Peace,wilful boy,or I will charm your tongue.”住口，任性的孩子，要不然我就叫你再开不得口。
4. enchant,fascinate用魔法迷惑，迷住。
△2H.IV.4.2.39: “Whose dangerous eyes may well be charmedasleep/With grant of our most just and right de-sires，” (Alluding to Argus,another mythologicalmonster with a thousand eyes which could be charmedto sleep by the music of Mercury.)只要我们公正合理的要求得到允准，它那险恶的眼睛自会被引诱得闭住入睡。
△Tw.2.2.19 (18): “Fortune forbid my outside have notcharmed her!”i.e.Fortune forbid that my appear-ance has charmed her into falling in love with me!(Here “not” is used to express emphatic negative.) 上帝不准，但愿我的外貌千万不要迷住她才好！
5. subdue制服。
△Shr.4.2.58:“To tame a shrew andcharm her chattering tongue.”驯服悍妇，治一治她的长舌头。
6. check,restrain阻止，制止。
△Shr.1.1.213(209):“charm him first to keep his tongue.”先嘱付他少开口。