1N-COUNT 诱饵;诱惑物;用作诱饵的人 If you refer to something or someone as a decoy, you mean that they are intended to attract people's attention and deceive them, for example by leading them into a trap or away from a particular place. 诱饵;诱惑物;用作诱饵的人
Nick acted as a decoy after the dog attacked a group of children swimming in the river.
那只狗攻击了在河里游泳的一群孩子后,尼克作诱饵要将其捉住。
He was booked on a flight leaving that day, but that was just a decoy.
2N-COUNT (用于吸引野鸟的)假鸟 A decoy is a model of a bird that is used to attract wild birds towards it so that people can study them or shoot them. (用于吸引野鸟的)假鸟