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.
水泥的行情也很火爆：在多哥的价格是200美元/吨，这个价格就像海妖迷人的歌声，引诱来自遥远港口的水泥货船。
And he has even, with the notable exception of a boneheaded tariff on cheap Chinese tyres, turned a deaf ear to the siren-song of the protectionists.
而且，除对中国廉价轮胎拙劣地加征关税这一明显例外，他对保护主义者的聒噪置之不理。
We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts.
我们在令人苦痛的真相面前易于闭上双眼，听着警报声声，直到她将我们变成野兽。
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.
哦，是的，寻求完美的号角。它召唤着我们每一个人，让我们沉浸在对明天，下个月，明年甚至来生的期许中。
Hollywood should beware the siren song.
好莱坞应当警惕美妙的海妖歌声。
We are APT to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts.
我们总是闭上眼睛，不去正视痛苦的现实，而倾听海妖的美妙的歌声，直到她把我们变成动物。
But a new study shows that people with true expertise in a subject have some immunity to the siren song of corporate sponsorship.
一项新的研究发现，在某一方面有真才实学的人们对广告赞助商的“糖衣炮弹”有一定的免疫力。
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.
他说美国不愿意参与仅仅解决部分问题的方案的探索——按照他的说法，这种做法就是向诱惑低头。
Many customers can't say no to the siren song of various discount offers made by the shopping mall.
面对商场提供的各种打折优惠，很多顾客都没办法抗拒这种诱惑。
As the G8 prepares to meet, Juliet Michaelson argues that world leaders should turn away from the siren song of limitless economic growth. ) r( K;
随着G8会议即将召开，朱丽叶·迈克尔森撰文指出，各国领导人应该避开经济无限增长这个迷人的陷阱。
But a new study shows that people with true expertise in a subject have some immunity to the siren song of corporate sponsorship.
然而，最近的一项研究表明在某一领域真正具有一定知识的人，能够抵抗来自相应赞助商的花言巧语。这一研究发表在了《美国国家科学院院刊》上。
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.
有些人对科学如何运作缺乏真正的理解，无论他们有多聪明，仍很难抗拒伪科学的迷惑。
FOR a brief interlude after the mid-terms Americans seemed seduced by the siren song of Germanic austerity.
在中期选举之后短暂的时间内，美国人似乎愿意接受德国人节约的理念了。
FOR a brief interlude after the mid-terms Americans seemed seduced by the siren song of Germanic austerity.
在中期选举之后短暂的时间内，美国人似乎愿意接受德国人节约的理念了。
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