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词汇 tempted
释义 tempted
past simple and past participle oftempt
tempt
verb[ T ]
uk /tempt/ us /tempt/
to make someone want to have or do something, especially something that is unnecessary or wrong: 引诱,诱惑
tempt someone into doing somethingThe offer of free credit tempted her into buying a new car.可享受免费贷款让她禁不住诱惑买了一辆新车。
[ + to infinitive ]They tempted him to join the company by offering him a huge salary and a company car.他们许诺给他优厚的薪水和一辆公司汽车,以吸引他加入该公司。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to draw your attention and interest you
attractWe were attracted to the high street, with its variety of shops and cafés.
drawThe game drew a crowd of 30,000.
enticeThe smell of coffee enticed people to enter the shop.
lureI was lured into the store by the smell of fresh bread.
temptI was tempted by the offer of a free phone.
seduceI wouldn't normally have bought this but I was seduced by the low price.
 be tempted
B2
to want something or to want to do something: 想要(某物);想做(某事)
"Did you apply for that job?" "Well, I was very tempted, but I decided not to."“你申请那个工作了吗?”“唔,我是很想申请,但最后还是决定放弃了。”
Perhaps some caviar can tempt your jaded palate.也许来些鱼子酱能让没有食欲的你胃口大开。
I was really tempted to take the money.
They put out food to tempt the foxes into the traps.
Chocolate cake? - Don't tempt me!
I was tempted into ordering a whole new wardrobe.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Attracting and tempting
affinity
allure
alluringly
arrest
attract
charisma
charm offensive
charm the pants off someoneidiom
chum
clickbait
glamour
honey trap
incentive
jump out at someone
lure
tantalizing
tantalizingly
tempt
temptation
temptingly

Idiom


tempt fate/providence

Examples of tempted


tempted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Some people, though not sophisticated philosophers nowadays, would be tempted by rule talk to make metaphysical mistakes.
Although one may be tempted to follow the colonial accounts and see these as generalized, unvaried forms of action, more historical specificity may be hypothesized.
On these grounds alone, therefore, one should be tempted to conclude in favour of autonomous models.
One is tempted to say that this is a consumerist vision of the church.
With few exceptions, the only incumbents who were tempted to defect from the party in power were those who supported political reform.
At no point will he be tempted to form the belief that a person is present.
I am tempted to say, however, that it still remains to be seen.
Drawing on some of our interview material one is tempted to link such complaints to our respondents' experience of social and cultural discontinuity.
Furthermore, the chapter is written in a style that is too abstract (from ' first principles ', one is tempted to say).
Only ' 'unbelievers' ' (kafiruna) may be - tempted to assign a period of time to it.
But contemporary visual scientists are not tempted to say that size, shape, and motion are mere constructs of the brain.
But animals and young children, tempted by immediate gains, have difficulty learning behaviors of self-control.
The analogy is undeniably striking, and one is tempted to conjecture similar results for higher-dimensional diagrams.
It is easy to see why some might be tempted to draw this conclusion.
One is tempted to answer: "a theory of mind"; but obviously this is not their answer.
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