The greatest folly—indeed, cruelty—is to dangle before men and women ideals that they are constitutionally incapable of achieving.

最愚蠢——更准确的说，最残忍的行为——是把理想悬挂与男人和女人面前，而他们却根本没有能力触及到。

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I don't want to do anything more than dangle that tantalizing fact before you, because there's nothing special about it besides the point that you can do it if you want to.

在此除了告诉您这个事实，我并不想再做任何其它事，因为它并没有什么特别的地方，只不过如果您想实现它，您就可以做到。

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To "dangle a carrot" before someone is to encourage them with an incentive.

在某人面前吊一个胡萝卜是指刺激，鼓励某人，吊某人胃口。

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But the government thinks its other plans will dangle sufficiently juicy carrots before disaffected youngsters to lure them back into learning or training without much wielding of big sticks.

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For now, Mr Haniyeh's Hamas men in Gaza dangle the idea of reconciliation before Fatah, promising much but accomplishing almost nothing.

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Her novels are intensely, violently personal, and because of this they seem to dangle bristling key chains of confession before the unsuspecting reader.

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