| 单词 | bait |
| 释义 | bait I. transitive verb 1. a. < baiting minority groups in a cheap display of prejudice > b. < his wife constantly baited him for not having more money > c. < she kept baiting him about her other love affairs > 2. a. < the hunters captured a large bear and baited him > b. < the dogs yapped with excitement as they baited the badger > 3. a. < they sat along the riverbank, carefully baiting the fish lines > b. < he baited the crop for wireworms > also < bait the rats for several days before putting out the poison > c. < a baited earthworm > d. < baiting him by promises of a good job > : lure especially by trickery, duplicity, or strategy < some planes were baited off course by false radio signals > 4. now dialect < the travelers paused to bait their horses > 5. intransitive verb 1. archaic a. b. 2. archaic < the horses baited at the edge of the road > Synonyms: < baiting the prisoner, terrorizing him — Liam O'Flaherty > Common in politics today, it suggests any malicious or scornful attack, ridicule, calumny, especially one goading a weak or defenseless opponent < baiting these hapless citizens who had the gall to have Japanese parents — G.S.Schuyler > ride in this sense suggests harassing by stringent unfair criticism, derision, or onerous imposition of tasks and charges < the foreman rides him. They transfer him from one job to another — Lawrence Lader > badger suggests bedeviling persistently with tactics calculated to confuse, madden, or enervate completely < the mill foreman so taunted the workers, so badgered them — Sinclair Lewis > < she can't sit and think quietly anywhere else without being badgered — Nevil Shute > hound implies persistent dogged pursuit and harassing < how Grandfather was hounded out of his congregation because he couldn't hold her to their standards of behavior for a minister's wife — Mary Austin > hector suggests any sustained domineering especially by bullying or scolding < he will speak in a loud voice, and will hector, because he wishes to prove that he is “somebody” — F.A.Swinnerton > heckle is especially likely to suggest harassing of a speaker or spokesman by disconcerting tactics, although it may be used for other situations in which one is harried < heckling the candidate with constant questions and interruptions > chivy is now applicable to any situation involving persistent petty harassing and vexation < having seen two successive wives of the delicate poet chivied and worried into their graves — Joseph Conrad > II. 1. a. b. c. 2. < asking harder work and holding up before them the bait of higher commissions > 3. now dialect a. b. 4. obsolete 5. slang Britain < he'd be in an awful bait if he knew > 6. chiefly South < a big bait of pie > < a good bait of firewood > 7. a. b. III. dialect Britain variant of beet III IV. archaic variant of bate |
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