Tempt

(verb.) try presumptuously; 'St. Anthony was tempted in the desert'.

(verb.) dispose or incline or entice to; 'We were tempted by the delicious-looking food'.

(verb.) give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting; 'the window displays tempted the shoppers'.

(verb.) try to seduce.

欧内斯廷编辑

• How much could it not tempt her to forgive! 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• We know how little there is to tempt anyone to our humble abode. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• In my own neighbourhood, no virtuous female friends would tempt me into dangerous gossiping at the tea-table. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• However, I think it answered so far as to tempt one to go again. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• She has no money, no connections, nothing that can tempt him to--she is lost for ever. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• But these things with Fred outside them, Fred forsaken and looking sad for the want of her, could never tempt her deliberate thought. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Perhaps 'twill tempt some woman that thy poor carcase had no power over when standing empty-handed. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But I am going to confess to you, Fred, that I have been tempted to reverse all that by keeping silence with you just now. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Mr. Bingley had not been of age two years, when he was tempted by an accidental recommendation to look at Netherfield House. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• From the first I was tempted to make an exception to this rule of avoidance: the seclusion, the very gloom of the walk attracted me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Well, I'm very much tempted, said St. Clare; that's just my difficulty. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• But he was not, and he turned his eyes aside, that he might not be tempted to softness. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Young sir, when you feel tempted to marry, think of our four sons and two daughters, and look twice before you leap. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• You will allow me the pleasure of bringing you some fruit again, if I should see any that is tempting. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• When they came out through the French window, there was the pond with one tempting little hole in the ice, right in front of their noses. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Yes, yes; the terms, in every sense, are tempting enough, I replied impatiently. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• They are not a tempting subject. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It's too tempting--I'll take the risk, she declared. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• You spare, thin men are always tempting and always cheating Death! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Mr. Pickwick could not resist so tempting an opportunity of studying human nature. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Everything interests him, every object tempts him to try his hand at improving on it. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.

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