| 词汇 | enticed |
| 释义 | enticed past simple and past participle ofentice 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 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. 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 Related wordenticement Examples of enticedenticed In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. 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. 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. Individuals or families were enticed to spy upon one another. It is very easy to be enticed into using more complicated and expensive molecular tools, when simpler, inexpensive versions exist. Numerous adolescents were enticed to return to school and several were able to complete their high school certificate examinations. The federal government is likely to be enticed by this threefor-one offer and to begin establishing federal regulatory institutions and issuing regulations. Policy-makers were enticed by socio-economic benefits and filling the crown coffers, but projectors expected to profit by serving the public good. Once one is at the level of the baths themselves, however, the ritual is not prescriptive any more; rather, one is enticed to discover the variety of experiences available. Enticed or fleeing, we re-form ourselves, taking on partially the coloration of our new backgrounds. Writers and readers alike may be enticed into such worlds by both the drama and the dazzling degree of detail that concentration on a limited geographical area can afford. We must not be enticed by mathematically attractive assumptions into pretending that the contingencies of men's social positions and the asymmetries of their situations somehow even out in the end. At the more daring edge of innovation, installation artists readily incorporated the new technology into their work, enticed by the possibilities of combination and fusion that it offered. Children performed an incredible variety of duties, taking on increased responsibilities as they grew older, until they were eventually enticed into the field by the promise of rewards. In those circumstances it is a painful thing that the bondholders should be enticed to come into a new conversion scheme. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Give them the money to spend freely instead, so that they are not enticed into investing in the wrong things. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English 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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