vt.诱惑；怂恿；引诱；吸引
I ought not to have let you tempt me into asking you a rude question. 我本来就不应该让你怂恿我跟你提出一个无礼的问题。
Those advertisements try to tempt people into buying their products. 那些广告试图怂恿大家去购买其产品。
He was tempted into making a false step. 他被引诱做了一件傻事。
He was tempted into a life of crime by greed and laziness. 他受贪婪和懒惰的驱使步入了罪恶的一生。
How can we tempt young people into engineering? 我们怎么才能吸引年轻人学习工程学呢?
Nothing would tempt me to live here. 什么也吸引不了我到这里居住。
tempt的基本意思是“劝说或鼓动某人去做某事”,常指以某种诱惑使人不顾理智而行事以致犯罪,即“引诱”“怂恿”。也可不加褒贬地指“吸引”。
tempt是及物动词,接名词、代词作宾语。还可接动词不定式充当补足语的复合宾语。
tempt的过去分词tempted可用作形容词,在句中作表语,意为“很想”。
