lure

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /lʊəɹ/|/lɝ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure. also,figuratively
    — How many have with a smile made small account Of Beauty and her lures
  2. Alternative form of lur. alt-of,alternative
  3. An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
  4. A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
    — My Faulcon now is ſharpe and paſſing emptie, / And til ſhe ſtoope ſhe muſt not be full gorg'd, / For then ſhe never lookes upon her lure.
  5. A velvet smoothing brush.
动词 v.
  1. To attract by temptation, appeal, or guile. transitive
    — It had been sixteen years since the BBC’s Grace Wyndham Goldie wrote her internal memo about luring him back to make sociological/scientific TV programmes. Now a second note had circulated, from the science department, proposing that he should present the Corporation’s next educative megaseries.
  2. To attract fish with a lure. transitive
  3. To recall a hawk with a lure. transitive

词形变化

lures plural lures present,singular,third-person luring participle,present lured participle,past lured past lures plural

词汇关系

衍生词
gyplure illure luresome Lurex spoon lure luringly
相关词
allure

词源

词源 1
From Anglo-Norman lure, from Old French loirre (Modern French leurre), from Frankish *lōþr, from Proto-Germanic *lōþr-, perhaps ultimately related to *laþō (“invitation, calling”), or from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to hide”). Compare English allure, also from Old French. Probably related to German Luder (“bait”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Icelandic lúðrbor.
English lure
Borrowed from Icelandic lúðr.
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