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Перевод: temptation
[существительное] соблазн ; искушение [существительное]
Тезаурус:
- Mary Ann was still holding the plate of temptation over the table.
- If the atmosphere were not so charming, it would be less of a temptation.
- "You can't be certain you're right and there is the greatest temptation to put them off and not to take them.
- I am not precise on depth because there is no great temptation to hang over the hole and peer down.
- He admits that the 50,000 bonus is a big temptation.
- The atmosphere is always electric, so it is an easy temptation to begin uninhibitedly, even for the very experienced.
- He decided that for him to sit back and imagine, to follow a Bensonian way and be a dilettante among refined ideas, was an actual temptation.
- That is code for seduction by capitalism - the temptation to which Eastern Europe has so eagerly succumbed.
- "Money" means simply "points", awarded according to the following scheme: mutual Cooperation, 3 points; Temptation to defect, 5 points; Punishment for mutual defection, 1 point (equivalent to a light fine in our earlier game); Sucker's payoff, 0 points (equivalent to a heavy fine in our earlier game).
- Whilst I entirely agree with Nochlin's decision not to amend any of the articles ("despite the strong temptation to correct what I now know to be errors of fact or feel to be mistakes of interpretation", p. xii), neither should they have been allowed to stand in an historical vacuum.
- The temptation to believe that what is most modern is also best - to see human history as a steady progress in knowledge and truth, probably culminating about wherever one happens oneself to be located - has always been almost irresistible, and popularised - if crude - evolutionary theory has, since the last century, added to what seems an historically continual tendency.
- The temptation must be resisted as firmly and valiantly as I have resisted the other, more obvious, more sensual lures and snares.
- If you feel tired during the day, resist the temptation to take a nap.
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