temptation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 引诱, 诱惑，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Colia and Kostia were about to make this purchase for their friend when chance brought the hedgehog to their notice, and they had succumbed to the temptation of buying it.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not think he resisted the temptation of giving her an account of his troubles.
-- You cannot praise him because he resisted the temptation to make any of those compromises with the world which most of us yield to.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I don't think there's hardly a chance of his really losing it, but carriers are under great temptation to pretend they lose things, no doubt,' said Mrs Nubbles apprehensively, in reference to the first point.
-- She told him all that they had no friend or relative that she had fled with the old man, to save him from a madhouse and all the miseries he dreaded that she was flying now, to save him from himself and that she sought an asylum in some remote and primitive place, where the temptation before which he fell would never enter, and her late sorrows and distresses could have no place.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, she could not withstand the temptation of having all the dresses her heart desired--dresses made of velvet, gauze and silk--ball dresses, with open neck and short sleeves.
-- This temptation of the day before was similar to that of a man who, after a night's sound sleep, feels like taking his ease on the soft mattress for a while, although he knows that it is time to be up and away on an important affair.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, there were too many seals on shore, and we ought not to lay such temptation in this unreflecting fisherman's way.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Isn't it an amazing thing," cried Gudrun, "how strong the temptation is, not to!"
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Don't let John be a stranger to the babies, for they will do more to keep him safe and happy in this world of trial and temptation than anything else, and through them you will learn to know and love one anoth-er as you should.
-- Somewhat daunted, Jo righted herself, spread her handkerchief over the devoted ribbons, and put-ting temptation behind her, hurried on, with increasing dampness about the ankles, and much clashing of umbrel-las overhead.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The weather being dark, and piercing cold, he had no great temptation to loiter.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Within doors there was Lady Catherine, books, and a billiard-table, but gentlemen cannot always be within doors; and in the nearness of the Parsonage, or the pleasantness of the walk to it, or of the people who lived in it, the two cousins found a temptation from this period of walking thither almost every day.
-- To know that she had the power of re-vealing what would so exceedingly astonish Jane, and must, at the same time, so highly gratify whatever of her own vanity she had not yet been able to reason away, was such a temptation to openness as nothing could have conquered but the state of indecision in which she remained as to the extent of what she should communicate; and her fear, if she once entered on the subject, of being hurried into repeat-ing something of Bingley which might only grieve her sister further.
-- His temptation is not adequate to the risk!'
-- 'I mean, that no man in his senses would marry Lydia on so slight a temptation as one hundred a year during my life, and fifty after I am gone.'
-- It was exactly a scene, and exactly among people, where he had apparently least to do, and least temptation to go.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The case was thus: he had been with us now about a month, during which time I had let him see in what manner I had provided, with the assistance of Providence, for my support; and he saw evidently what stock of corn and rice I had laid up; which, though it was more than sufficient for myself, yet it was not sufficient, without good husbandry, for my family, now it was increased to four; but much less would it be sufficient if his countrymen, who were, as he said, sixteen, still alive, should come over; and least of all would it be sufficient to victual our vessel, if we should build one, for a voyage to any of the Christian colonies of America; so he told me he thought it would be more advisable to let him and the other two dig and cultivate some more land, as much as I could spare seed to sow, and that we should wait another harvest, that we might have a supply of corn for his countrymen, when they should come; for want might be a temptation to them to disagree, or not to think themselves delivered, oth-erwise than out of one difficulty into another.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had just parted from my sister, had seen her leave him in the greatest affliction; and if he felt obliged, from a fear of offending Mrs. Smith, to resist the temptation of returning here soon, and yet aware that by declining your invitation, by saying that he was going away for some time, he should seem to act an ungenerous, a suspicious part by our family, he might well be embarrassed and disturbed.
-- Volume IICHAPTER 23However small Elinor's general dependence on Lucy's veracity might be, it was impossible for her on serious reflection to suspect it in the present case, where no temptation could be answerable to the folly of inventing a falsehood of such a description.
-- An opportunity of coming hither, though with Mrs. Jennings, was a temptation we could not resist.
-- On such a subject," sighing heavily, "can I have little temptation to be diffuse."
-- Now, however, his good-natured, honest, stupid soul, full of indignation against me, and concern for your sister, could not resist the temptation of telling me what he knew ought to though probably he did not think it WOULD vex me horridly.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I could not resist the temptation to come out this afternoon, it was so pleasant."
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