Temptation

(noun.) something that seduces or has the quality to seduce.

(noun.) the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid; 'he felt the temptation and his will power weakened'.

录入:卢卡斯

• Meantime, watch and pray that you enter not into temptation: the spirit, I trust, is willing, but the flesh, I see, is weak. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It was dreadfully improper, I know, but I couldn't resist the temptation, and lifting one end of the curtain before the glass door, I peeped in. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• For my temptation to _think_ it a right, I refer every caviller to a brick house, sashed windows below, and casements above, in Highbury. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• His next proceeding, in case of temptation, was to throw the key out of window. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The temptation is strong to say that workaday electricity is half an American. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Temptation leapt on him like the stab of a knife. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• A like temptation might, perhaps, occasion a like corruption in the form of law proceedings. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• And suddenly fear possessed her--fear of herself, and of the terrible force of the temptation. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• They accosted me as Satan, bid me avaunt, and clamoured to be delivered from temptation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I rested my temples on the breast of temptation, and put my neck voluntarily under her yoke of flowers. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The temptation was too strong. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She would be never led into temptation, nor left for it to find her out. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I believe it was an inspiration rather than a temptation: it was very genial, very soothing--I know that. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Many circumstances assisted the temptation. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Human nature could not withstand these bewildering temptations. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Where, to what distance apart, had her father wandered, led by doubts which were to her temptations of the Evil One? 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Jo, dear, we all have our temptations, some far greater than yours, and it often takes us all our lives to conquer them. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• All the discretion, all the experience, which had availed me with other women, and secured me against other temptations, failed me with her. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• That is merely one of the temptations of theory. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Don't think too well of me, either, this is not one of my temptations. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbour? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I suppose each mode of life produces its own trials and its own temptations. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• He is her lover, whoever he is; but she may need help and womanly counsel;--there may be difficulties or temptations which I don't know. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• When thus prostrate, temptations besieged her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The comparative innocence of the other European powers is to be ascribed largely to their lesser temptations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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