| 释义 |
rise to the baitReact to a provocation or temptation exactly as intended: Jenny was being provocatively rude, but he never rose to the bait...- If she refuses to rise to the bait and respond to the remark, she is taken to have tacitly admitted the truth of the accusation.
- He tried to provoke Mr Archer, who is in his 40s, into a street fight but he did not rise to the bait, even when he had turned away and was pushed in the back.
- Boris rose to the bait, advertised his coming appearance in Hamlet, commissioned a translation, and starred in it, as promised.
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