1. 这是个什么词？
词：magnet
英英释义：something or someone that attracts many people or things
例句：Shenzhen has become a magnet for college graduates from across the country.
2. 为什么选这个词？
“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。下面我们通过几个例子掌握它的用法。
深圳吸引了全国各地的大学生，就可以说：
Shenzhen has become a magnet for college graduates from across the country.
曾几时共享单车项目吸引了来自很多不同地方的投资人，可以说：
Bike-sharing startups used to act as a magnet for investors from far and wide.
纽约的东村吸引了来自全世界各地有抱负的艺术家，可以说：
The East Village of New York City has long been a magnet for aspiring artists from all over the world.
下面来看《经济学人》中的几个例子：
1）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.
2）China’s southernmost province of Hainan is a tropical tourist-magnet of white-sand beaches, mountains and rainforests.
3）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.
4）In some places, the refugees boost local businesses and act as a magnet for foreign aid.
3. 怎样学会使用这个词？
1）翻译下面的句子：
好莱坞一直像磁石般吸引着追名逐利的人们。
（参考翻译：Hollywood has always acted as a magnet for people seeking fame and fortune.)
2）结合自己的生活、学习、工作、兴趣等，想象在什么语境下会用到这个表达。先简要描述这个场景，再造句。
Shapotou becomes a magnet for its endless desert.