decoy
英 ['di?k??; d?'k??]
美 ['dik??]
助記提示
1. de- + cage => *decage => decoy.
2. the sense is from the practice of using tamed ducks to lead wild ones along channels into captivity.
3. 將其誘騙到籠子里面來。
4. 諧音“敵可誘”-----可以誘騙敵人。
中文詞源
decoy 誘捕鳥獸的假獸，假鳥來自荷蘭語de kooi, the cage. 即籠子，陷阱，后用來指誘捕鳥獸的假獸，假鳥。
英文詞源
- decoy
- decoy: [16] Dutch kooi means ‘cage’ (it comes from Latin cavea ‘cage’, source of English cage). The term came to be applied specifically to a pond which had been surrounded with nets into which wildfowl were lured for capture. English took it over, but brought with it the Dutch definite article de, so that Dutch de kooi ‘the decoy’ became English decoy.
=> cage - decoy (n.)
- 1610s, perhaps from Dutch kooi "cage," used of a pond surrounded by nets, into which wildfowl were lured for capture, from West Germanic *kaiwa, from Latin cavea "cage." The first element is possibly the Dutch definite article de, mistaken in English as part of the word. But decoy, of unknown origin, was the name of a card game popular c. 1550-1650, and this may have influenced the form of the word.
- decoy (v.)
- 1650s, from decoy (n.). Related: Decoyed; decoying.
雙語例句
- 1. He was booked on a flight leaving that day, but that was just a decoy.
- 他訂了那天起飛的航班，但那不過是個誘餌。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Nick acted as a decoy after the dog attacked a group of children swimming in the river.
- 那只狗攻擊了在河里游泳的一群孩子后，尼克作誘餌要將其捉住。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. The use of Ozawa's impotent carriers as a decoy force was brilliant.
- 利用小澤那幾條脆弱的航空母艦作為一支誘敵艦隊,這個戰(zhàn)略也是十分巧妙的.
來自辭典例句
- 4. These pellets could burst the decoy balloons that would accompany a swarm of warheads.
- 這些子彈能摧毀伴隨許多枚彈頭的假目標(biāo)--氣球.
來自辭典例句
- 5. It's just a decoy, a facade, so we'll leave her alone.
- 那只是一個假象, 一個外表, 所以我們要讓她一個人呆著.
來自電影對白