tantalising

1. By a tantalising quirk of fate, the pair have been drawn to meet in the first round of the championship
   仿佛是命运的捉弄，这对选手在锦标赛第一轮比赛中就狭路相逢。
2. There are tantalising signs that we are leaving the top-down world.
   有诱人的迹象显示，我们正在离开自上而下的世界。
3. Sophia sees a new and tantalising future for herself, but Luke is keeping a secret that could destroy it all.
   索菲看到了自己将来的美好新生活，但卢克却一直保守着不为人知的秘密，一旦泄露便会万劫不复。
4. Whats more, hes offering a tantalising new theory about what really makes us fat which could revolutionise our approach to weight loss.
   而且，他还为真正让我们发胖的罪魁祸首提供了一种诱人的新理论这能彻底改变我们的减肥大法。
5. While the advent of Big Data has created the tantalising vision of a more transparent financial system, the grubby reality of Big Geopolitics has turned this into a mirage.
   尽管大数据的问世带来了一个更为透明的金融体制的诱人前景，但是大地缘政治的无情现实令其变成海市蜃楼。
6. In particular, the demand created by its vast nuclear expansion is a tantalising prospect for traditional Western suppliers of nuclear technology.
   尤其是，中国庞大的核扩张计划创造的需求，对于传统的西方核技术供应商来说是一个诱人的前景。
7. With the launch of new trade initiatives in Asia and Europe, and the tantalising prospect of reforms by China, the momentum could be moving in favour of further market opening.
   随着亚洲和欧洲新的贸易举措的推出，加上中国改革的诱人前景，进一步市场开放可能会迎来更有利的局面。
8. The spectacular beach volleyball stadium on Horse Guards Parade was being prepared for the opening matches today and there was a tantalising taste of what will be on show.
   位于皇家骑兵卫队校场的沙滩排球馆已经为今天的各项开幕赛事做好了准备，将奉献出撩人的视觉盛宴。
9. Analysts, however, say both sides are anxious to complete a deal that would give SIA greater access to the tantalising Shanghai market in return for helping restructure China Eastern.
   然而，分析人士表示，双方都急于完成一项交易。如果交易成功，新加坡航空将更大程度地参与诱人的上海航空市场，以此作为帮助东航进行重组的回报。
10. It is a particularly tantalising prospect for Indian officials.
    对于印度官员而言，这是一种十分诱人的前景。
11. The gossip at the table is tantalising: speculation that the motive force behind the court case is Beijing.
    餐桌上的闲聊是吊人胃口的推测，在法庭后的动力是北京。
12. It is a story of management hubris and excessive risk-taking and it raises one of the most tantalising questions of the year: were the US authorities, notably Hank Paulson, US Treasury Secretary, right to let Lehman go under?
    这是一个关于管理傲慢和过度冒险的故事，它提出了一个今年最引人深思的问题：美国政府，尤其是美国财长汉克保尔森（hankpaulson），让雷曼破产到底对不对？
13. Scientists yesterday offered a tantalising glimpse of a sub-atomic fragment sometimes called the "God particle" because it gives substance to all matter in the universe.
    科学家们昨日让外界瞥见一个亚原子碎片的迷人风采，这种碎片有时被称为“上帝粒子”，因为它是宇宙中所有物质的质量之源。
14. Like a "Peking Tom", he relied on tantalising glimpses.
    就像一位“北京窥探者”一样，他所能做的就是管中窥豹。
15. But on Thursday the duo offered a tantalising clue to beyondbrics about what this could mean and about possible future links with the Hong stock exchange.
    但周四，这两位负责人向beyondbrics传递了关于这话可能意味着什么的诱人的暗示以及未来可能与香港交易所（hongstockexchange）建立的联系。
16. Paul Pogba is hoping for more chances to prove himself after his tantalising taste of the first team in last month's Carling Cup defeat of Leeds.
    上个月在联赛杯客场击败利兹的比赛中首次亮相的伯格巴希望自己能得到更多出场机会。
17. Much more tantalising returns were within reach by investing in a new crop of exotic products being pushed by inventive bankers: the collateralised debt obligations, structured products and other quasi-bonds that hoodwinked investors the world over.
    更为诱人的回报也伸手可及，只要投资于一批善于创造的银行家们所推销的奇异新产品：担保债务凭证（cdo）、结构性产品以及其它忽悠全球投资者的准债券产品。
18. We only have a glimpse here, but it's so tantalising that you couldn't go to bed without telling the whole world about it.
    虽然我们现在只是看到暗物质一闪而过，但这已经非常让人激动，以至于不告诉全世界就无法入眠。
19. Detecting water on Earth-like planets offers the tantalising prospect they could sustain life.
    在类似地球的星球上发现海洋将意味着那里存在生命的可能。
20. Meanwhile, there are other tantalising possibilities as us and European banks try to expand in fast-growing emerging markets.
    与此同时，随着美国和欧洲银行试图在快速增长的新兴市场中扩张，这里还存在着其它颇为诱人的可能性。
21. This offers a tantalising prospect-though one reason why Club Med matters is that it is fraught with dangers.
    这一点让欧洲感到支持地中海联盟迫在眉睫-当然另外还有一个重要原因，那就是它现在危险重重。
22. Yet for eurozone countries such as Greece, this lesson is tantalising because the European Monetary Union is a much tougher discipline than the gold standard, with no provision for exit from the single currency.
    然而，对希腊之类的欧元区国家来说，上述经验教训不过是使人干着急，因为欧洲货币联盟的纪律比金本位制严得多，并无退出单一货币体系的途径。
23. But in this very loathing of everything surrounding him Pierre found a sort of tantalising satisfaction.
    但是皮埃尔在他对周围一切事物的厌恶情绪中，却发现一种令人激动的喜悦。
24. These lovely trees threw patterns of light and shadow across our road* creating a tantalising flicker in our eyes, making us draw in the fragrant morning air, breath after deep breath.
    这些迷人的树木在路上投下各种光影图案，令我们眼花缭乱。我们大口大口地呼吸着早晨的清新空气。

adj

1. very pleasantly inviting
   1. a tantalizing aroma
   2. a tempting repast

   Synonym:    tantalizingtempting

2. arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach
   1. a tantalizing taste of success

   Synonym:    tantalizing