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词汇 entice
释义 entice
verb[ T ]
uk /ɪnˈtaɪs/ us /ɪnˈtaɪs/
to persuade someone to do something by offering them something pleasant: 诱惑;诱使;引诱
entice someone into somethingThe adverts entice the customer into buying things they don't really want.广告诱使顾客购买他们并不真正需要的东西。
be enticed away fromPeople are being enticed away from the profession by higher salaries elsewhere.别处更加丰厚的薪水诱使人们辞职另谋高就。
[ + to infinitive ]A smell of coffee in the doorway enticed people to enter the shop.门口飘出的咖啡香味使得人们闻香驻足,进入店内。
Synonyms
lure
tempt
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.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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

Related word


enticement

entice | American Dictionary


entice
verb[ T ]
us/ɪnˈtɑɪs/
to attract someone to a particular place or activity by offering something pleasant or advantageous:
People are enticed away from government jobs by higher salaries.

Examples of entice


entice
Credible apologies signal government commitment to redress economic conditions and may entice continued labour quiescence and production investment.
The utilisation of whole-group listening tasks as a straightforward means of investigating baseline competencies is an enticing one.
Developers appear inclined to entice the buyer with a sleek kitchen and oak floor, at the expense of craftsmanship and longterm maintenance.
Female shoppers, enticed by new metropolitan retail development, carved out a space for middle- and upper-class women in the public spaces of the city.
Opera is most critically enticing when it slides between mirroring and marking gender and sexuality.
It provides a broad overview of gerontology research to the undergraduate or to the uninitiated, and may entice one or two to read further.
Whereas our forebears spoke of engaging people's interests and motivating, inducing, enticing, or encouraging people to act in certain ways, we speak of their incentives.
They are enticed by the promises of nationalist leaders who promote a substantive version of democracy that emphasizes the socio-economic elevation of the poor.
After all, even outrageously enticing police conduct constitutes an offer, rather than a threat.
Individuals or families were enticed to spy upon one another.
Readers new to this area will find the volume an enticing preface, encouraging further study in a complex and rapidly expanding field.
In my ears please say something that will entice my heart.
Do you give them exclusively to the needy, or do you use them as a sweetener to entice students on to less popular courses?
The other involved the employment of decoy female elephants to entice wild males.
It is very easy to be enticed into using more complicated and expensive molecular tools, when simpler, inexpensive versions exist.
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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