實體的餌
最貼近字源的一支：真的有一個看得見、摸得到的東西被放出去引動物過來。
bait / decoy object · noun · C2
An object used to attract animals or fish so that they can be caught.
誘餌
核心畫面
One useful picture: a small bright object dangled on a line to make a fish swim toward the hook. The object is not the food the fish wants — it only looks like it. The pull comes from what it seems to promise.
釣線上那個閃亮的小假餌。它在水裡晃動、發光，魚看到就游過來——可是那不是真的食物，是做給魚看的。lure 的整個家族…更多收起
釣線上那個閃亮的小假餌。它在水裡晃動、發光，魚看到就游過來——可是那不是真的食物，是做給魚看的。lure 的整個家族都建立在這個畫面上：有人放出一個看起來很值得靠近的東西，被吸引的一方朝它移動，而移動的方向其實是別人選好的。這個字的重點永遠不在「東西本身多好」，而在「它把誰引到哪裡去」。這也是為什麼 lure 幾乎總帶著一點不安：被引過去的人，看到的是餌，不是鉤。From the word’s history
From Old French loirre, a Frankish-derived word for the feathered decoy a falconer swung on a cord to call the hawk back — a made object used to draw a living thing in. The modern senses keep exactly that: a thing put out to pull something toward you.
這個字來自古法語 loirre（源頭是法蘭克語），本來指馴鷹人手上那個綁著羽毛的假鳥——把它甩在繩子上轉，天上的鷹就會飛回來。所以 lure 從一開始就不是「吸引力」這種抽象概念，而是一件實際做出來、專門用來把活的東西引過來的道具。現代的每個用法都還保留這個底：有人放出一個東西，另一方朝它走。
Wiktionary, "lure" (Anglo-Norman lure < Old French loirre < Frankish *lōþr; falconry decoy sense)
Three branches
抽象的吸引力
把手上那個餌拿掉，只留下「它讓人想靠過去」的那股力量本身。
appeal; draw · noun · C2
Something that attracts people, or the quality of being able to do this, often strongly even when it may be unwise.
誘惑
把人引過去
由名詞轉成動作：不再是「有個餌」，而是「某人在放餌」，被引的對象從魚變成人。
entice into wrongdoing · verb · C2
To make someone do something, especially something wrong or dangerous, by making it look attractive or exciting.
引誘
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lurenoun詞源 1/lʊə/
- 1
Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
- How many have with a smile made small account Of Beauty and her lures
- 2
fishinghobbieslifestyleAn artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
- the inch-at-a-time flutter of a surface lure
- 3
falconryhobbieshuntingA bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
- My Faulcon now is ſharpe and paſſing emptie, / And til ſhe ſtoope ſhe muſt not be full gorg'd, / For then ſhe never lookes upon her lure.
- 4
A velvet smoothing brush.
lureverb詞源 1/lʊə/
- 1
To attract by temptation, appeal, or guile.
- It had been sixteen years since the BBC’s Grace Wyndham Goldie wrote her internal memo about luring him back to make sociological/scientific TV programmes. Now a second note had circulated, from the science department, proposing that he should present the Corporation’s next educative megaseries.
- Professor is what you become after teaching for twenty to thirty years. Research Professor is what you then want to become, so you can finally stop worrying about students and do the research that lured you into academia in the first place!
- 2
To attract fish with a lure.
- 3
falconryhobbieshuntingTo recall a hawk with a lure.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。