A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诱惑
Temptation
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
婚姻之所以受欢迎，是因为它结合了最大的诱惑和最大的机会。
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
多年后遇到老朋友，第一个诱惑总是视而不见。
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
诱惑是透过钥匙孔窥视的魔鬼。屈服是打开门，邀请他进来。
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one thatll get you home earlier.
中年是在两种诱惑中做出选择，还是选择能让你早点回家的那个。
Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.
没有什么比适当的教养、一套健全的价值观和见证人更容易抵制诱惑了。
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
为什么诱惑不让人遇见并控制它，使它伏在自己的脚下，从而获得胜利呢?
You never know what you're made of until temptation comes knocking. The only temptation I've given in to is to have one more slice.
你永远不知道自己是什么做的，直到诱惑来敲门。我唯一屈服的诱惑就是再吃一块。
Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
虽然我对很多人怀有深深的感激之情，但我还是放弃了给他们命名的诱惑，因为我担心自己会漏掉一些名字。
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
一个人只要像试探人的人那样，诚心诚意地祷告，抵制诱惑，他就不需要采取更可靠的措施。
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
秘密在男人之间设置了障碍，但同时也提供了通过流言蜚语或坦白来打破障碍的诱惑。
Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn't appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
没有什么比公共开支更容易的了。它似乎不属于任何人。把它送给别人的诱惑是压倒性的。
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
许多人真的不想成为圣人，而且很有可能，一些达到或渴望成为圣人的人从来没有感受到成为人类的诱惑。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a man's fingers.
诱惑扭曲正直，就像拇指螺丝扭曲一个人的手指一样。
Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
被试探是一回事，跌倒又是另一回事。
We sometimes confuse the feeling of temptation with that of giving into temptation. The danger here is that sometimes, feeling that we have allowed ourselves to fall, we despair of ourselves and allow ourselves to fall further.
我们有时会混淆诱惑和屈服于诱惑的感觉。这里的危险在于，有时，我们觉得自己让自己堕落了，我们对自己绝望，让自己进一步堕落。
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
任何诱惑都不能以其对象的价值来衡量。
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
永远不要屈服于痛苦的诱惑。
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
不要叫我遇见试探。我自己能找到路。