Decoy
['diːkɒɪ;dɪ'kɒɪ] or ['dikɔɪ]
解释:
(noun.) a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot).
(verb.) lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy.
整理:塞尔瓦托--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.
(n.) Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.
(n.) A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.
(n.) A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.
(n.) A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.
编辑:梅布尔
同义词及近义词:
v. a. Allure, lure, entice, inveigle, seduce, tempt, entrap, ensnare.
n. Lure, allurement.
整理:奥利维亚
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Allure, entice, ensnare, entrap, seduce, mislead, inveigle, lure, tempt
ANT:Guide, instruct, warn, conduct, disabuse, extricate
整理:诺拉
解释:
v.t. to allure: to entrap: to lure into a trap.—n. anything intended to allure into a snare: an apparatus of hoops and network for trapping wild-ducks—sometimes duck-coy.—n. Decoy′-duck a wild-duck tamed and trained to entice others into a trap: (fig.) one employed to allure others into a snare.
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例句:
- Some of them, perhaps, may sometimes decoy a weak customer to buy what he has no occasion for. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The _matador_ or _espada_ now comes in gravely with a naked sword and a red flag to decoy the bull with, and aims a fatal blow at the animal. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Save these poor strangers, whom you have decoyed here. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Huss was decoyed to Constance under promise of a safe conduct, and he was then put upon his trial for heresy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It was the note with which Holmes had decoyed him. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Why were they not followed home too, and decoyed into the trap? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- The wanderer, decoyed into the enchanted castle, heard rising, outside, the spell-wakened tempeSt. What, in all this, was I to think of Madame Beck? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- If she had decoyed her brother home to blot out the memory of his error by his blood! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- How could they have decoyed him down there? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
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