February 14, 2008

Decoy

decoy



Yahoo!奇摩字典

vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)

          1.    引誘(鳥、獸等);誘騙[(+into)]
                      He had been decoyed across the frontier and arrested as a spy.
                      他被誘騙越境,然後被當作間諜逮捕。

vi. (不及物動詞 intransitive verb)

          1.    被誘

n. (名詞 noun)[C]

          1.    (誘捕鳥獸用的)假鳥,假獸;誘餌動物
          2.    用作誘餌的人;誘惑者
                      a police decoy
                      替警方作誘餌的人
          3.    誘餌;誘惑物
          4.    誘捕處


The Columbia Guide to Standard American English

decoy (n., v.)   
 
Stress on the first syllable is more frequent in the noun (DEE-koy), 
on the second in the verb (dee-KOY), 
but each part of speech also has the other stress pattern as a divided usage. 


see coy charlatan patsy

年輕人成為手提袋男對付警察的 decoy








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