vt.誘惑；慫恿；引誘；吸引
The warm weather tempted us into going for a swim. 暖和的天氣誘使我們?nèi)ビ斡尽?!--www.www.sigorfond.com 中小學(xué)英語網(wǎng)-->
I ought not to have let you tempt me into asking you a rude question. 我本來就不應(yīng)該讓你慫恿我跟你提出一個無禮的問題。
Those advertisements try to tempt people into buying their products. 那些廣告試圖慫恿大家去購買其產(chǎn)品。
He was tempted into making a false step. 他被引誘做了一件傻事。
He was tempted into a life of crime by greed and laziness. 他受貪婪和懶惰的驅(qū)使步入了罪惡的一生。
How can we tempt young people into engineering? 我們怎么才能吸引年輕人學(xué)習(xí)工程學(xué)呢?
Nothing would tempt me to live here. 什么也吸引不了我到這里居住。
tempt的基本意思是“勸說或鼓動某人去做某事”,常指以某種誘惑使人不顧理智而行事以致犯罪,即“引誘”“慫恿”。也可不加褒貶地指“吸引”。
tempt是及物動詞,接名詞、代詞作賓語。還可接動詞不定式充當(dāng)補足語的復(fù)合賓語。
tempt的過去分詞tempted可用作形容詞,在句中作表語,意為“很想”。
