| 词汇 | example_english_temptation |
| 释义 | Examples of temptationThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. When it comes to the crunch, a general sense of prevailing ignorance might not sustain us against other temptations. The main potential checks on these temptations are political institutions that force governments to ' internalise ' the social costs of their opportunistic behaviour. The central theme here is the tension between strictures of ritual propriety and temptations to ' commerce ' (comercio). Tax expenditures are reported annually in order to counteract temptations to expand less visible subsidies on the revenue side of the budget. Unsurprisingly, their temptations are futile amid the corruption of moder n civilisation. The meteorological instability of springtime corresponds to spiritual inconstancy and the excessive temptations the new converts have been exposed to. They saw a need for citizens who regard contracts - and especially, the social contract - as sacred, secure against all but the most extreme temptations to break promises once made. I claim only that statistically significant generalizations will mask some cases where authentically self-aware individuals' deliberate moral choices and interpersonal commitments permit them to overcome fitness-oriented temptations to be unfaithful. She discovers, moreover, that he has his own marriage plot in mind: an unloving union with her, designed specifically to counter the idolatrous temptations of a marriage based on affection. Most importantly, goodness could be known and lived, even if temptations and prejudices might lead individuals away from its side and blind them to its presence. Opposed to culture and the city, the desert was the site of demonic torment and trial, but also of purity in being removed from the temptations of the city. As she explained, it was the temptations of the world that led her to sins such as vanity or carnal delight as well as a lack of caring for others. They often succumb to the temptations to adopt an idealist stance that can blind them to the action constraints that political structures often impose powerfully upon agents. Political struggle is fraught with moral ambiguity not merely on account of the seductions of power, but also as a result of the temptations of subjection. At this stage old and decrepit people are in a better position than the young, because old people can better withstand the temptations that accompany conversion. Coordinated aid should be sent as a matter of urgency, but it should be done without giving in to neo-colonialist temptations. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English There are many temptations in the buying of kittens and puppies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In fact, the risks are the same, as all mankind is exposed to the same temptations and suffers the same human frailties. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have seen magnificent fellows fail under the temptations that come to a policeman. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Fifty-two days is quite long enough for me to learn to avoid the temptations and seductions of flattery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When lads and girls get into workshops and factories the temptations are much greater, and both evils—bad language, betting and gambling—are more rampant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, it is not surprising that more and more young people are succumbing to its temptations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We also call for a renewed political will to resist the temptations of economic nationalism and to exploit everyone's full potential. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The best antidote, the best way to prevent dictatorial temptations in the future is to put an end to impunity. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I think there are sometimes temptations in that direction. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I call on you not to give in to these temptations and not to transform a technical debate into a debate belonging to historians. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English No one denies that those temptations in the past have brought about some very serious results. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The temptations in certain circumstances to take short cuts could imperil safety. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 With all the temptations of power and of government, that is pretty dangerous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are all human, subject to like temptations, passions, mental reactions and balances and the rest. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They know better than anyone the vast difficulties, the possibilities and the manifold temptations which beset the profession. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would draw attention to the special temptations on railways, because of the nature of the carriage of goods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was referring, in particular, to the temptations to which all of these men were being subjected. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were offered repeated temptations to come between 1945 and 1950, but they did not come. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I apologise profusely for giving in to temptations of the flesh. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nothing is easier to-day than to rise superior to the temptations of tomorrow. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am convinced that the race is well able to withstand the temptations put before it by drink. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All planners inevitably have temptations, and one of the great temptations to which they are subjected is that of the clean sweep. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are temptations, sometimes for police officers, not to oppose bail when they should oppose bail. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are open all the time to tremendous temptations to self-indulgence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There would have been temptations to launch an operation of this kind. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The average man or woman is not interested in temptations which they do not understand and which have never come their way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must watch this carefully, as the temptations are great. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am satisfied that it will increase the temptations which lie in the path of adolescents. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We need to remove temptations and reduce encouragement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There will be temptations not to reveal documents which ought to be revealed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There will be temptations not to disclose things to judges which ought to be disclosed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are, he says, beyond the temptations of normal man—and he arrives here in the hope that he will share that situation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There will be temptations to say things to witnesses which ought not to be said. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The position has now been brought under control, the temptations reduced and temperance promoted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I realise that there are temptations and that there is a great deal of prestigious support for the limit to be set at 24 weeks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 With regard to absenteeism, there are serious temptations to those who cannot stand against them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such children are ripe, it may be said, to the temptations and difficulties of the criminal world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should all recognise that the temptations are enormous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In today's world, parents find it very difficult to bring up children, with all the temptations before them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are subject to the greatest temptations and provocation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I always do my best to resist improper temptations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many great men have refused to yield to temptations of that nature. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know full well there are great temptations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The fund, built up on contributions, must have its income assured, and there will be all kinds of temptations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of the temptations for a governing party is the potential corruption that any funding from a company could bring. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They know the temptations that beset the path of young women between those ages. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One wonders many times how these girls escape unscathed from all the temptations that surround such a life as they are bound to live. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The third category in prevention is a variety of general measures to diminish the temptations and opportunities for crime and delinquency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He did not give way to the temptations which were obviously present. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The temptations will be quite considerable — some of them have already been expressed today. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have seen and understand now the temptations of democracy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, the temptations to go off the straight and narrow increase. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The children of the family are also under strain from new influences and temptations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In some cases the temptations of drink account for this failure to work up to the high standard expected. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are houseless, often friendless and penniless, and they are exposed to temptations and dangers which are deplorable to contemplate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A large number of teachers are increasingly concerned about the number of their pupils drinking and see the legislation as providing new temptations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The temptations are far more powerful than the equipment that they may have to resist them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I should like to believe it would not, but it has never been put to quite the temptations which other parties have had. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are temptations, particularly in certain clubs, which this prohibition would help people to avoid. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They responded in very great measure to the pressure put upon them and the temptations offered to them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are concerned with the people being exploited for financial advantage, and we are concerned with the temptations to the young. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have never held exaggerated views about the dangers and temptations of the cinema. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There were temptations in a democratic assembly to pursue another course. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that they will resist such temptations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The possibilities are endless and the temptations considerable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the last five years we have all succumbed to short-term temptations of some kind or another. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They long remain incapable of dealing with the new freedoms and with the temptations offered by criminal elements, capitalist and otherwise. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The temptations it may offer to the thriftless are counterbalanced by the facilities it affords to early marriage and home building. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Thus, vicarious reward creates an incentive to help the people whose experiences you choose as occasions for emotion, and to resist temptations to exploit them. Make up your mind that whatever the short-term temptations may be, you will never deviate from the highest standards of honour. Because the temptations and dangers would be minor, the process of soul-making would be gentler and slower. Without the protection offered by college walls and communal discipline, how would scholars withstand temptations and distractions and devote themselves to higher things? However, the twin temptations to determinism - architecture solely grounded on ecology or architecture solely grounded on technical production - have been identified and, we hope, avoided. The deconstructed heart is ever restless, yet the theological virtues stand only as perpetual temptations to rest in inauthenticity. One of the temptations of ab-initio programs is that they require much less information and are easier to run. I argue that democratic institutions promote developmental governance by countering temptations for politically opportunistic behaviour that is economically damaging. The bourgeois no longer lived either in a family economy of scarcity or in a rank of society remote from the temptations of high society. According to standard economic theory, the willingness to comply or pay more taxes is weak unless self-motivation or social solidarity overrides free-ride temptations. The moral decision still rested with each individual who either resisted or yielded to the temptations of his plight. The commitment of keeping the exchange rate fixed could prevent government temptations to follow excessively expansionary macroeconomic policies. In that case, they survive not merely as fragments of a negative identity, but also as temptations, possibilities, and rejected selves. They know the difficulties, the frustrations, and the temptations of the work. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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