temptation
temptation 英 [tempˈteɪʃn] 美 [tɛmpˈteʃən]
n. 引诱；诱惑物
名词复数:temptations
- Temptation is something you want to have or to do, even though you know you shouldn't. That bag of peanut butter cups on top of your fridge might be an example of a temptation.
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- n. 引诱；诱惑物
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1. the temptation of easy profits
轻而易举获利的诱惑
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2. to give way to/yield to temptation
经不住诱惑
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3. I couldn't resist the temptationto open the letter.
我抑制不住好奇心把信打开了。
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4. Don't put temptation in her wayby offering her a cigarette.
别递烟来引诱她。
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5. An expensive bicycle is a temptation to thieves.
高档自行车对窃贼是个诱惑。
- temptation (n.) c. 1200, "act of enticing someone to sin," also "an experience or state of being tempted," from Old French temptacion (12c., Modern French tentation), from Latin temptationem (nominative temptatio), noun of action from past participle stem of temptare "to feel, try out" (see tempt). Meaning "that which tempts a person (to sin)" is from c. 1500.
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