日本語WordNet
something that seduces or has the quality to seduce
the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid; "he felt the temptation and his will power weakened"
the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire; "his enticements were shameless"
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Temptation is the desire to do something, especially something wrong or unwise, or the thing that tempts. It implies a struggle between desire and restraint.
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Medieval theology often discussed concupiscent temptations.
中世神学はしばしば肉欲的な誘惑について論じました。
She manfully resisted the temptation.
彼女は誘惑に毅然と抵抗しました。
The temptation proved resistible after all.
その誘惑は結局、抵抗できるものだった。
His succumbing to temptation was his downfall.
誘惑に屈したことが彼の没落の原因でした。
He was unresistant to the temptation of sweets.
彼は甘いものの誘惑に抵抗できなかった。
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