But it's time he decided whether he is fish, flesh, fowl or good red herring.

只是现在他该决定他是、是肉、是飞禽，是熏青了。

However, Edwards calls this argument a red herring.

但是，爱德华兹称这种说法是在转移注意力。

Next enjoy lots of fresh lobster, pickled herring, salmon and char.

有大量新鲜龙虾、腌鲱、鲑和红点鲑。

And it's delicious, slippery raw fish known as herring.

它是美味的，滑滑的生，被称为鲱。

I mean their town's flag even has three herrings on it.

我是说他们镇的旗帜上甚至有三条鲱。

Talking of red herrings, there is one ingredient missing.

说到红鲱，少了一种食材。

Whether critical race theory is the source of the changes is a red herring.

批判的种族理论是这些变化的根源，是一种转移注意力的说法。

The Japanese herring fishery collapsed in the middle of the 20th century.

20纪中叶，日本鲱业崩溃。

Oh, so, for no reason, I've just been carrying around this red herring?

噢，所以说，我就无缘无故的，带来这只红鲱吗？

Let us cut open a fresh herring, and look into it.

咱们把鲱切开, 看看里面吧。

Herring gulls and wood turtles also sometimes drum their feet on the earth to summon worms.

银鸥和木雕水龟有时也会在地面上跺脚来吸引蚯蚓。

Many other fishes eat the spawn, or the sea would soon be full of herrings.

有很多其他的会把卵块吃掉, 不然, 海里很快就到处是鲱了。

How many red herrings can you find in this story? Let us know in the Comments Section.

在今天的故事里，你能发现多少障眼法？在评论区留言告诉我们吧。

Ask your mother to buy some fresh herrings, and then you can see what they are like.

让妈妈买点儿鲱回来, 就能看见它们什么样了。

In our examples today, however, a red herring means something that takes attention away from the real issue.

然而在我们今天的例子里，" red herring" 意思是分散人们对于真正问题的注意力。

Here they eat the herring a little differently.

在这里，他们吃鲱的方式有点不同。

So, there are things we don't know about the origin of red herring.

所以，关于" red herring" 的来源我们有不清楚的地方。

Herrings are caught in long nets, called drift-nets.

鲱是用一种长长的网捕捞上来的, 这种网叫做“漂网”。

We sell, I think, two to three hundred herrings a year.

我想我们一年能卖两三百条鲱。

But those reasons turn out to be red herrings.

但这些动机最后证明都是混淆视听的。