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temptation

英 [tem(p)'teɪʃ(ə)n] 美[tɛmp'teʃən]

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n. 引诱；诱惑物

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Neither children nor adults could resist the temptation of a free toy.

Its temptation is too strong for people to resist.

Large companies have a difficult time switching into new markets because there is a temptation to put existing assets into the new businesses

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.

America will remain the best place on earth to do business, so long as Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress resist the temptation to interfere too much, and so long as organised labour does not overplay its hand

Few people are able to resist alcohol's temptations.

One who has integrity is bound by and follows moral and ethical (道德上的) standards even when making life's hard choices, choices which may be clouded by stress, pressure to succeed, or temptation.

Few people can resist the temptation of money

So the temptation is to write and rewrite and rewrite.

They are better sheltered from all the outside temptations.

He can't resist the temptation of TV either.

For a follow-up analysis, he found that people whose neural reward centres were more active when they won money were also more likely to be among the group of liars一suggesting that lying may have to do with the inability to resist temptation.

David Brooks, author of the Social Animal: the Hidden Sources of Love,Character, and Achievement, appears to be the latest in a long line of writers who have failed to resist the temptation.

For many, finding an unattended wallet filled with ￡400 in cash would be a source of temptation.

Indeed science is so good at what it does that there's always a temptation to drag it into problems where it may not be helpful.

The temptation to see who is connecting him is just too great.

We still have the imaginative capacity to rise above temptation and reverse the high-speed trend.