| 单词 | entice |
| 释义 | enticeWord family adjectiveenticeablenounenticemententicerenticingverbenticeadverbenticingly en·tice /ɪnˈtaɪs/ verb [transitiveT] PERSUADEto persuade someone to do something or go somewhere, usually by offering them something that they want 诱惑；诱使 entice into/away/from etc The birds were enticed back into Britain 40 years ago. 那些鸟在40年前被引回英国。 entice somebody/something to do something Our special offers are intended to entice people to buy. 我们的特价优惠是为了吸引人们购买。 —enticement noun [countableC, uncountableU] Examples from the Corpus entice• She intrigued him and enticed him and infuriated him.• Each member of the relay race needs to entice others to be on the team.• The banks are offering special low rates in an attempt to entice prospective customers.• The company hopes to entice shareholders into agreeing to a merger.• A recruiter entices the poor and the homeless with promises of employment, good wages, food and shelter.• On Saturday I phone my city children to entice them out for Thanksgiving, dangling before them mountain marvels and prepaid tickets.• The ads entice young people to smoke. entice into/away/from etc• Meanwhile, the leading Pandava brother is enticed into a dice game he knows he will lose but can not resist.• She enticed into her house the party Odysseus dispatched to spy out the land, and there she changed them into swine.• It was also one of the few occasions where the singer's sense of humour was enticed from the shell.• Therefore, some of their number had to be enticed away to make them more vulnerable. (1200-1300) Old French enticier, from Latin titio “large burning piece of wood” |
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