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siren song造句
1. They prepared their siren song for the early-evening crowd. 2. Then, unable to resist the telephonic siren song, she picked it up. 3. Daniel Boone heard it: the siren song of the open road, beckoning him to pack up and go. 4. In the mid-17th century Russians first heard its siren song and appeared on its banks, drawn by greed and fantasy. 5. Africa's siren song to aluminum manufactureres isn't emanating from Congo alone by any means. 6. Many customers can't say no to the siren song of various discount offers made by the shopping mall. 7. Travel and socializing issue a siren song for six weeks – enjoy, but don't be overly distracted. 8. Oh, the siren song of perfection. It calls us all, until we find ourselves drowning in the promise of another day, another month, another year, another life. 9. The bottom line is that General Motors heeded the siren song of management Centralism in the mid-sixties. 10. Forty Niners president Carmen Policy called the lure of free agency a siren song. 11. But for students who came of age in the Great Recession the siren song of science can be tough to resist. 12. For those lacking a fundamental comprehension of how science works, the siren song of pseudoscience becomes too alluring to resist, no matter how smart you are. 13. The recent vigour of global economic growth is a siren song. 14. But a new study shows that people with true expertise in a subject have some immunity to the siren song of corporate sponsorship. 15. FOR a brief interlude after the mid-terms Americans seemed seduced by the siren song of Germanic austerity. 16. While most people with information about buyouts, product tests, or new gadgets can resist the siren song of greed and power, there are always a few who cave. 17. Cement's going rate is glorious, too: $200 per metric ton in Togo, a sum like a siren song luring clunky cement ships from their distant ports. 18. Now Spruance, a normally cool and analytical old battleship sailor, was drawn by the siren song of a last epic surface battle. 19. He said the United States was not willing to engage in a search for partial solutions — to succumb, as he put it, to a siren song.