temptation是什么意思？

temptation

英[tempˈteɪʃn] 美[tɛmpˈteʃən]

• n. 诱惑，引诱，诱惑物；

复数：temptations;

例句

• The purse on the table was a strong temptation to the poor child. 桌上的钱包对那个穷孩子是一个强烈的诱惑。
• He who avoids temptation avoids the sin. 避诱惑，免罪恶。
• ...the temptation to boost profits through accounting wheezes. 通过在账目上做手脚以提升利润的诱惑。
• The temptation would grow to take out our frustrations on Saigon. 由于我们遭到挫折而要同西贡算帐的引诱力会增加.
• Unhappily, Forbes could not resist the temptation to make money on the side. 不幸, 福布斯禁不住从中谋利.
• I should congratulate you that you resisted the temptation. 我应向你祝贺,你抗住了这种引诱.
• Abashed at this question, I answered that sloth was my besetting temptation. 这个问题使我感到困窘不安, 我回答说懒惰是我的主要癖好.
• The temptation to recognize apomictic microspecies ( agamospecies ) as taxonomic species is far greater. 把无融合生殖小种 ( 无性种 ) 作为分类学上的种来承认,这点具有更大的迷惑性.
• He stifled his temptation to take hold of Ivy and shake her. 他压抑住想要抓住艾薇摇晃她的冲动。
• Don't succumb to the temptation to have just one cigarette... 不要经不住诱惑，只抽一支烟也不行。

英语四级真题

Its temptation is too strong for people to resist.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
Large companies have a difficult time switching into new markets because there is a temptation to put existing assets into the new businesses
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
Although many other big firms resisted the temptation to over-borrow, developers borrowed heavily and built bigger and fancier hotels as if the whole world were planning a holiday in Las Vegas.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文

英语六级真题

So the temptation is to write and rewrite and rewrite.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
They are better sheltered from all the outside temptations.
出自-2013年12月听力原文
He can't resist the temptation of TV either.
出自-2011年12月听力原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-VAR
  诱惑;引诱;诱惑物;诱因
  If you feel you want to do something or have something, even though you know you really should avoid it, you can refer to this feeling as temptation. You can also refer to the thing you want to do or have as a temptation .
  例句
  Will they be able to resist the temptation to buy? 他们能忍住诱惑不买吗？ ...the many temptations to which you will be exposed. 你将面临的许多诱惑

英汉词典释义

• n.
  诱惑, 引诱
  He was surrounded by temptations. 他受到各种诱惑。
  诱惑物, 煽诱人的事物
  The purse on the table was a strong temptation to the poor child. 桌上的钱包对那个穷孩子是一个强烈的诱惑。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. something that seduces or has the quality to seduce
  2. the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid;
  "he felt the temptation and his will power weakened"
  3. the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire;
  "his enticements were shameless"