英语词汇tempt的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	tempt
词源	tempt [ME] Tempt goes back to Latin temptare ‘to test, try’, which is the sense in the expression tempt Providence [E18th]. In the Middle Ages temptation was particularly used in relation to the biblical story, in the Gospel of Matthew, of Jesus being tempted to sin by the Devil when he spent 40 days in the wilderness. Attempt [LME] is from the same root.
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