resist temptation

基本解釋

The question is whether a person can be trained to resist temptation.
現(xiàn)在的問題是，能否訓練出抗拒誘惑的能力。
While there may be genetic differences that influence commitment, other studies suggest that the brain can be trained to resist temptation.
雖然基因的差異可能是影響婚姻的原因之一，但其它的研究表明大腦可以通過訓練來抵制誘惑。
Although a few people have very high (or very low) levels of self-control, two-thirds of us lie somewhere near the middle: sometimes finding it easy to resist temptation, other times not.
盡管有些人有或高或低的自制力，三分之二的人能力一般：有時候很容易抵制誘惑，有時候卻很難。

It's a temptation their curious minds can barely resist: "If we don't use human DNA now someone else will."
In the 2008 hit Twilight, she fell in love with Edward, the eternally young teenager of the Cullen clan of vampires who have chosen to live among humans and resist the temptation to eat them.

Maybe it was time to resist temptation.
NEWYORKER: Show The Monster
There was no statistically significant difference among these groups to volunteer time with retarded children or to resist temptation to cheat on a test (There was only one group in which a majority did not cheat: the atheists).
FORBES: Religion vs. Atheism: Which Side Can Rightly Claim to be Reasonable and Tolerant?