bait

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bait1 /beɪt/ noun [singular, uncountableU]

1 DSOfood used to attract fish, animals, or birds so that you can catch them 饵，诱饵

We used worms as bait.

我们用小虫子作诱饵。

The fish wouldn’t take the bait.

鱼儿不上钩。

→4 See picture of 见图 FISHING →5 see picture at 见图 fishing

2 FORCE somebody TO DO somethingsomething attractive that is offered to someone to make them do something or buy something, especially when this is done in a dishonest way that tricks people 〔使别人上当的〕引诱物，诱饵

Plenty of people took the bait (=accepted what was on offer) and lost their life savings.

有很多人受骗上当，一生的积蓄都没了。

3 rise to the bait ANGRYto become angry when someone is deliberately trying to make you angry 被故意激怒，上当发火

Senator O'Brien just smiled, refusing to rise to the bait.

奥布赖恩参议员只是笑了笑，没有中计发火。

Examples from the Corpus

rise to the bait• He was a real showman, and however he was feeling, he always rose to the bait of a captive audience!• But she never rose to the bait.• I felt I was arguing on behalf of myself and the other two, who never rose to the bait.• But she clamped her lips together and didn't rise to the bait.• She could rage till she fell down in a fit, but he wouldn't rise to the bait.• They rose to the bait and decided they needed to prove a point, putting together their nine-piece Bootsy Collins-featuring live band.• She was concentrating too intently to rise to the bait.• Do you rise to the bait?

Examples from the Corpus

bait• For interferon has been dangled as a bait before investors with more money than scientific sense.• The more supple a line the more natural a bait will behave in the water.• Some individual birds do not use edible bait, but inedible lures, such as feathers.• Worms make excellent fish bait.• Don't you know you're using that boy like bait to catch a fish?• For a beginner, the bait is often one of the hedgehog cacti, also known as the Echinocereanae.• I felt I was arguing on behalf of myself and the other two, who never rose to the bait.• The bait here is a certificate good for future travel for your cooperation in delaying your trip.• My favourite game was capturing two using bait and a net, then tying them together.

take the bait• The yellowfins, too, were becoming wary and took the bait less often.• And in any case, the other austere Benedictine had taken the bait.• Maybe you stationed yourself where you could keep an eye on the lobby to see if I took the bait.• But in the stagecraft of dethronement, Kingsley had not taken the bait, had not even blinked.• Satan took the bait and fastened his teeth reflexively on the blocking forearm.• She had the disagreeable impression that she'd now well and truly taken the bait, and was to provide entertainment accordingly.• It seemed inevitable that he would take the bait that had been laid out in the Park for him.

took the bait• The yellowfins, too, were becoming wary and took the bait less often.• Maybe you stationed yourself where you could keep an eye on the lobby to see if I took the bait.• Plenty of people took the bait and ended up losing their life savings.• Satan took the bait and fastened his teeth reflexively on the blocking forearm.

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