意味(日本語)

試みる、(心の強さをためす)誘惑する

語源

• tempt-、 tent- : L.temptare=to try, to test(手で触れてみてためす)

意味(英語)

• (verb-transitive) To try to get (someone) to do wrong, especially by a promise of reward.
• (verb-transitive) To be inviting or attractive to: A second helping tempted me. We refused the offer even though it tempted us. See Synonyms at lure.
• (verb-transitive) To provoke or to risk provoking: Don't tempt fate.
• (verb-transitive) To cause to be strongly disposed: He was tempted to walk out.
• (verb-intransitive) To be attractive or inviting: a meal that tempts.

例文

• 16 Disappointment might urge the flatterer to secret revenge; and the first glance of favor might again tempt him to suspend and suppress a libel, 17 in which the Roman Cyrus is degraded into an odious and contemptible tyrant, in which both the emperor and his consort Theodora are seriously represented as two daemons, who had assumed a human form for the destruction of mankind.

触覚、触手(ためしに触れるためのもの)

語源

• tempt-、 tent- : L.temptare=to try, to test(手で触れてみてためす)

試験的の、実験的の、仮の

語源

• tempt-、 tent- : L.temptare=to try, to test(手で触れてみてためす)

誘惑、試練

語源

• tempt-、 tent- : L.temptare=to try, to test(手で触れてみてためす)

人の心をひく、そそのかすような

語源

• tempt-、 tent- : L.temptare=to try, to test(手で触れてみてためす)