Temptation
[tem(p)'teɪʃ(ə)n] or [tɛmp'teʃən]
解释:
(noun.) something that seduces or has the quality to seduce.
(noun.) the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid; 'he felt the temptation and his will power weakened'.
录入:卢卡斯--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction.
(n.) The state of being tempted, or enticed to evil.
(n.) That which tempts; an inducement; an allurement, especially to something evil.
格雷戈里录入
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Enticement (especially to evil), allurement.[2]. Bribe, bait, lure, decoy, golden apple, voice of the tempter, song of the Sirens.
录入:米歇尔
娱乐性解释：
To dream that you are surrounded by temptations, denotes that you will be involved in some trouble with an envious person who is trying to displace you in the confidence of friends. If you resist them, you will be successful in some affair in which you have much opposition.
录入:提托
例句:
- Meantime, watch and pray that you enter not into temptation: the spirit, I trust, is willing, but the flesh, I see, is weak. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- It was dreadfully improper, I know, but I couldn't resist the temptation, and lifting one end of the curtain before the glass door, I peeped in. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- For my temptation to _think_ it a right, I refer every caviller to a brick house, sashed windows below, and casements above, in Highbury. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- His next proceeding, in case of temptation, was to throw the key out of window. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- The temptation is strong to say that workaday electricity is half an American. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Temptation leapt on him like the stab of a knife. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- A like temptation might, perhaps, occasion a like corruption in the form of law proceedings. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- And suddenly fear possessed her--fear of herself, and of the terrible force of the temptation. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- They accosted me as Satan, bid me avaunt, and clamoured to be delivered from temptation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- I rested my temples on the breast of temptation, and put my neck voluntarily under her yoke of flowers. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- The temptation was too strong. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- She would be never led into temptation, nor left for it to find her out. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- I believe it was an inspiration rather than a temptation: it was very genial, very soothing--I know that. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Many circumstances assisted the temptation. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Human nature could not withstand these bewildering temptations. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Where, to what distance apart, had her father wandered, led by doubts which were to her temptations of the Evil One? 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Jo, dear, we all have our temptations, some far greater than yours, and it often takes us all our lives to conquer them. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- All the discretion, all the experience, which had availed me with other women, and secured me against other temptations, failed me with her. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- That is merely one of the temptations of theory. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Don't think too well of me, either, this is not one of my temptations. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbour? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- I suppose each mode of life produces its own trials and its own temptations. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- He is her lover, whoever he is; but she may need help and womanly counsel;--there may be difficulties or temptations which I don't know. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- When thus prostrate, temptations besieged her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The comparative innocence of the other European powers is to be ascribed largely to their lesser temptations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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