TEMPT

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Traducere în limba română

tempt verb tranzitiv

a seduce, a ademeni, a tenta, a ispiti, a aţâta, a provoca;

one is tempted to ask the question fără să vrei îţi pui întrebarea / eşti tentat să (te) întrebi, de la sine se impune întrebarea.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

However, I think it answered so far as to tempt one to go again.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Only keep your cousin Edmund from me at such a time: I should not like to be tempted.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

"And that will tempt YOU, Miss Marianne."

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

She has no money, no connections, nothing that can tempt him to—she is lost for ever.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I was almost tempted that evening to tell Steerforth about pretty little Em'ly, but I was too timid of mentioning her name, and too much afraid of his laughing at me.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Without that attraction, not all her money would have tempted Elliot, and Sir Walter was, moreover, assured of her having been a very fine woman.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

And, as you say, it may tempt for good as well as for evil.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Then Snowdrop was much tempted to taste, for the apple looked so very nice; and when she saw the old woman eat, she could wait no longer.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

The first time I found St. John alone after this communication, I felt tempted to inquire if the event distressed him: but he seemed so little to need sympathy, that, so far from venturing to offer him more, I experienced some shame at the recollection of what I had already hazarded.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I confess I was often tempted, while they were passing backwards and forwards on my body, to seize forty or fifty of the first that came in my reach, and dash them against the ground.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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