An expensive bicycle is a temptation to thieves.

高档自行车对窃贼是个诱惑。

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I yielded to temptation and had a chocolate bar.

我经不住诱惑，吃了一大块巧克力。

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Congress should resist the temptation to try quick economic fixes.

国会应该抗拒尝试快速经济调整的诱惑。

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Two-thirds of all the people on benefits are in work, so perhaps ministers might consider resisting the temptation conjure-up their favoured imagery of hard-working people setting-out early in the morning while their neighbours on out-of-work benefits are still snugly tucked-up behind their closed blinds.

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Bureaucrats should be reduced in number, but their pay temptation-thwartingly increased.

ECONOMIST: Stop the rot

Tested by miserable in-laws, half-hearted sex, temptation, alcoholism, noisy neighbours and teenage children who are both all-knowing and wilfully blind.

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