bait
bait 英 [beɪt] 美 [bet]
v. 在…中放诱饵 n. 饵；诱饵
进行时:baiting 过去式:baited 过去分词:baited 第三人称单数:baits 名词复数:baits
- People who go fishing aren’t the only ones to use bait. When you hold a yard sale, place your best stuff closest to the sidewalk — to serve as bait. Bait can be anything from the worms that hide a hook to a stereo that tempts shoppers to stop and browse.
- 请先登录
- v. 在…中放诱饵
- n. 饵；诱饵
-
1. The fish took the bait.
鱼咬了钓饵。
-
2. He baited the trap with a piece of meat.
他在陷阱中放了一片肉做诱饵。
- bait (n.) "food put on a hook or trap to attract prey," c. 1300, from Old Norse beita "food, bait," especially for fish, from beita "cause to bite," from Proto-Germanic *baitjan, causative of *bitan, from PIE root *bheid- "to split," with derivatives in Germanic referring to biting. The noun is cognate with Old Norse beit "pasture, pasturage," Old English bat "food." Figurative sense "means of enticement" is from c. 1400.
- bait (v.1) c. 1200, "to torment or persecute (someone);" c. 1300, "to set a dog to bite and worry (an animal, especially a confined one, for sport)," from Old Norse beita "to cause to bite," from Proto-Germanic *baitjan (source also of Old English bætan "to cause to bite," Old High German beizzen "to bait," Middle High German beiz "hunting," German beizen "to hawk, to cauterize, etch"), causative of *bitan (see bite (v.)).
- bait (v.2) "to put food on a fishing line or in a trap," c. 1400, probably from bait (n.). From 1590s as "to lure by bait." Related: Baited; baiting.
- 请先登录
0 个回复