LURE的意思|LURE的解释-里氏词典

lure [luә]

n. 饵, 诱惑

vt. 引诱, 诱惑

lure
lures

[ noun ]

qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward

<noun.attribute>

anything that serves as an enticement

<noun.cognition>

something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed

<noun.artifact>

[ verb ]

provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion

<verb.communication>

entice

tempt

He lured me into temptation

Lure \Lure\, n. [OF. loire, loirre, loerre, F. leurre lure,
decoy; of German origin; cf. MHG. luoder, G. luder lure,
carrion.]
1. A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited
with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks.
--Shak.

2. Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of
advantage or pleasure; a decoy. --Milton.

3. (Hat Making) A velvet smoothing brush. --Knight.

Lure \Lure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lured}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Luring}.] [OF. loirer, loirier, F. leurrer. See {Lure}, n.]
To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of
anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to
attract.

I am not lured with love. --Piers
Plowman.

And various science lures the learned eye. --Gay.

Lure \Lure\, v. i.
To recall a hawk or other animal.

The FBI went to great lengths in 1987 to lure convicted hijacker Fawaz Younis to a yacht in international waters off Cyprus to arrest him for leading a 1985 hijacking of a Jordanian airliner carrying several U.S. citizens.
Connecticut, in an attempt to lure more young people into the work force, raises its minimum wage 25%, effective October 1988, and considers lowering the minimum working age to 15.
Some analysts say success will require a huge marketing budget, and they question whether Mr. Murdoch's programming budgets will be large enough to lure people from four existing channels and other planned new services.
The candidates are relying on grass-roots organizing, telephone banks and direct mail to lure Democrats to the caucus; none is buying television advertisements.
Led by Industry Minister Ariel Sharon, among others, they view U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker III's idea as an attempt to lure Israel into talks with the PLO and trade territory for peace.
Bush aides already are attempting to paint his campaign as an uncontainable force, and they believe they will be able to lure Dole supporters who increasingly will view the Kansan as a lost cause.
But earnings at Spanish banks have suffered from a war to lure depositors with high interest rates, and Banesto's decision to hold its dividend could lead competitors to do the same.
A four-way Democratic presidential primary plus hotly contested local elections and race track referendums were expected to lure 1.5 million voters to the Wisconsin polls today, election officials said.
Almost everyone who comes to the peninsula that divides the Caribbean from the Gulf of Mexico is attracted by the lure of the ancient Mayas.
The arbitrator noted that the Kansas City Royals took the Detroit Tigers' Kirk Gibson, the most coveted free agent of that season, on a hunting trip in an attempt to lure him to switch clubs.
Baseball proponents hope approval of the tax will lure a team.
Saudi Arabia offered price incentives to lure back oil customers and revive its crude output, which has plunged recently.
They argue that Mr Moi has skilfully exploited western concern, doing enough to lure back the donors and ease the foreign exchange shortage, but without commitment to sustained reform.
The bond market fails two general rules of thumb that would generate buying, he contended: Yields haven't risen high enough compared with stocks to attract interest, and there hasn't been a major rally recently that typically would lure buyers.
Argentina's all-powerful trade unions formed the movement's base of popular support, the military was drawn toward Peronism's violent ambiance and the industrialists were persuaded by the lure of protectionism.
The Chinese government is pulling out all the stops to lure businessmen back, even as it simultaneously wages a media campaign against the U.S. government for alleged interference.
The operators of these schemes are counting on a universal human weakness, the lure of beating the system and actually getting something for nothing, or almost nothing.
At foreign-exchange kiosks, opened to lure hard currency from Russia, a dollar bought more than 100 rubles last week.
American Telephone & Telegraph Co. today announced a 19 percent gain in third-quarter earnings and said it was sweetening its pension program to lure thousands of managers into early retirement.
Market specialists said the bonds were generously priced at 57 basis points, or 0.57 of a percentage point, above the comparable U.S. Treasury note and were the right maturity to lure investors.
In earlier guilty plea, DeFusco admitted conspiring with Freedom Financial Corp. to lure residents from Midwest and Southwest states to visit time-share resorts in Texas and Missouri.
With Yellowstone National Park's wildfires still burning, the famous tourist attraction's gateway cities already are planning ways to lure visitors to the charred landmark next summer.
They say that the companies increasingly will need bigger and bigger incentives to lure customers in the future, and the recent price increases would help the auto makers offer sweetened incentives without hurting their profit.
A can of state-grown popcorn with the words "Georgia's Popping" will greet each delegate to the Democratic National Convention in an effort by the Georgia Tourist Division to lure conventioneers outside Atlanta to some of the state's other cities.
He said he would launch special efforts to lure black and Hispanic voters into Republican ranks.
The five-inch pollack, a food fish belonging to the cod family, bit on a lure that was almost its size.
Each year, thousands feel the lure of Mr. Correia's way of life.
It does not follow that the Telegraph can therefore lure away twice as many floating readers.
With a Soviet military buildup on one side and the lure of the capitalist world on the other, the Chinese leaders are fast approaching a no-win situation for their Communist Party.
Shelby Theriot, manager of a pipe-contracting company, said he had to offer 50 percent above the minimum to lure a primary school dropout from the underground economy to work as a messenger.

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