tempt的意思是:vt.诱惑;怂恿;引诱;吸引。tempt【近义词】lure诱惑。tempt的读音是英[tempt];美[tempt]。
一、详尽释义点此查看tempt的详细内容
二、双解释义
三、词典解释
1.引诱;诱惑;吸引
Something thattempts you attracts you and makes you want it, even though it may be wrong or harmful.
e.g. Reducing the income will further impoverish these families and couldtempt an offender into further crime...
降低收入只会使这些家庭更加贫穷,而且可能诱使不法分子进一步犯罪。
e.g. It is the fresh fruit that tempts me at this time of year...
一年当中这个时节,新鲜水果最能吸引我了。
2.怂恿;利诱;诱惑
If youtempt someone, you offer them something they want in order to encourage them to do what you want them to do.
e.g. ...a million dollar marketing campaign totempt American tourists back to Britain...
耗资百万美元试图把美国游客重新吸引到英国来的营销活动
e.g. Having spent so long at a great club like Rangers, no other Scottish team couldtempt him away...
在流浪者队这样优秀的俱乐部呆了这么久之后,其他苏格兰球队都吸引不了他了。
3. see also: tempted
4.说晦气话,玩过火,冒险(使好运结束)
If someone says that something they say or dois tempting fate oris tempting providence, they mean they are worried that it may cause the good luck they have had so far to end.
e.g. As soon as you start to talk about never having played on a losing side, it is tempting fate.
你刚说从来没输过,晦气就来了。
四、例句
The warm weather tempted us into going for a swim.
暖和的天气诱使我们去游泳。
I ought not to have let you tempt me into asking you a rude question.
我本来就不应该让你怂恿我跟你提出一个无礼的问题。
Those advertisements try to tempt people into buying their products.
那些广告试图怂恿大家去购买其产品。
He was tempted into making a false step.
他被引诱做了一件傻事。
He was tempted into a life of crime by greed and laziness.
他受贪婪和懒惰的驱使步入了罪恶的一生。
How can we tempt young people into engineering?
我们怎么才能吸引年轻人学习工程学呢?
Nothing would tempt me to live here.
什么也吸引不了我到这里居住。
五、常用短语
It's easy enough to tempt me from my work with a good television film or something else that I enjoy.
我很容易被好的电视片或我感兴趣的其他事物所吸引而放下手头的工作。
They are trying to tempt her from her present job with an offer of more money.
他们正力争用更多的钱来诱使她离开工作岗位。
His ambition tempted him into politics.
他的雄心诱使他投入政界。
They tried to tempt her into staying with offers of promotion.
他们提出给她晋级来劝说她留下。
The warm weather tempted us into going for a swim.
暖和的天气诱使我们去游泳。
He was tempted into a life of crime by greed and laziness.
他受贪婪和懒惰的驱使步入了罪恶的一生。
He was tempted into making a false step.
他被人引诱做了一件蠢事。
The boy claimed that he had been tempted into stealing the jewels with a promise of a good share of the profit.
那孩子声称他是被引诱去偷珠宝的,他得到了事后能分到一大笔钱的许诺。
Can I tempt you to another piece of cake?
我能请你再吃一块蛋糕吗?
六、经典引文
God did tempt Abraham.
出自:Bible (AV): GenesisNor tempt the wrath of Heav'ns avenging Sire.
出自:Pope七、词义辨析
tempt的相关近义词
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tempt的相关临近词
temptation、temporary、Tempte、tempter、tempting、tempt God、tempt out、temptress、tempt off、temptable、tempt fate、tempted to