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Picture a pull you feel towards something you have already decided not to do: the cake is right there, you said you would not, and part of you is still leaning towards it. Temptation is that pull — the wanting that happens while you know better.

「明知道不該,還是被拉過去的那股力」。蛋糕就放在桌上,你早上才說今天不吃;你並沒有忘記,那個「不該」還在,可是身體已更多收起「明知道不該,還是被拉過去的那股力」。蛋糕就放在桌上,你早上才說今天不吃;你並沒有忘記,那個「不該」還在,可是身體已經往前傾了。temptation 就是這股拉力。它的關鍵在於裡面同時有兩件事:想要,而且知道不該想要。少了後面那一半就不叫 temptation,只是單純的 want。所以這個字天生帶著一點內心拉扯的味道,也因此常出現在減肥、省錢、戒菸、還有道德選擇的場合。

One branch

心裡的那股拉力,與拉你的那個東西

同一件事的兩端:一個講你心裡的感覺,一個講在外面勾住你的那個東西。

urge to do wrong · noun · B2

a strong feeling that you want to do or have something, even when you know you should not do it or that it is not good for you.

誘惑;忍不住想做的念頭

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

temptationnoun/ˌtɛmpˈteɪʃən/

  • 1

    The act of tempting.

  • 2

    The condition of being tempted.

  • 3

    Something attractive, tempting or seductive; an inducement, seducement, or enticement.

    • At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]
  • 4

    Pressure applied to one's thinking designed to create wrong emotions which will eventually lead to wrong actions.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。