Cage
[keɪdʒ] or [kedʒ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept.
(noun.) the net that is the goal in ice hockey.
(noun.) United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992).
(noun.) something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement.
(verb.) confine in a cage; 'The animal was caged'.
康拉德編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
(n.) A place of confinement for malefactors
(n.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.
(n.) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.
(n.) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
(n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
(n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
(n.) The catcher's wire mask.
(v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
校對:雷明顿
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Imprison, immure, confine, incarcerate, cabin, crib
ANT:Liberate, free, dismiss, unbar
編輯:纽曼
解釋/意思:
n. a place of confinement: a box made of wire and wood for holding birds or small animals: (mining) a frame with one or more platforms for cars used in hoisting in a vertical shaft: the framework supporting a peal of bells.—v.t. to imprison in a cage—p.adj. Caged confined.—ns. Cage′ling a bird kept in a cage; Cage′-work open work like the bars of a cage.
艾弗里校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
In your dreaming if you see a cageful of birds, you will be the happy possessor of immense wealth and many beautiful and charming children. To see only one bird, you will contract a desirable and wealthy marriage. No bird indicates a member of the family lost, either by elopement or death. To see wild animals caged, denotes that you will triumph over your enemies and misfortunes. If you are in the cage with them, it denotes harrowing scenes from accidents while traveling.
海因里希錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- But I will drop it in that gorge like a broken bird cage. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- By force of circumstance, because all the world combined to make the cage unbreakable, he had been too strong for her, he had kept her prisoner. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- And a bird-cage, sir,' says Sam. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- From every cage that harboured red men a thunderous shout went up in answer to his exhortation. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- In the breakfast-room I found my aunt's favourite canary singing in his cage. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The cage allowed air to pass and light to escape, and although by the combustion of the fire-damp the wire gauze might become red hot, it was still efficient as a safety-lamp. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The guard lolled before the unbarred gate of the cage which confined me. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- On a table, at one side of the door, stood the cage, so well known to me by description, which contained his white mice. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Bear with me, my angel, and remove them to their travelling cage upstairs. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Thus, when the figure of a bird is painted on one side, and an empty cage on the other, by rapidly turning the card, the bird appears to be in the cage. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- At a signal from Dak Kova the doors of two cages were thrown open and a dozen green Martian females were driven to the center of the arena. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Everybody talked, not very loudly, but merrily, and the canary birds sang shrill in their high-hung cages. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I suppose animals kept in cages, and so scantily fed as to be always upon the verge of famine, await their food as I awaited a letter. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- There's some of the birds flown from the cages. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The old man, looking up at the cages after another look at us, went through the list. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He paused a moment before the cages, with upraised sword. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The racks without your cages are filled with blades. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Then a figure broke from one of the cages behind them. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- I could not have imagined then that you would want to sell our furniture, and take a house in Bride Street, where the rooms are like cages. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The other apes turned now upon me, and as I stood facing them a sullen roar from the audience answered the wild cheers from the cages. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The caged eagle, whose gold-ringed eyes cruelty has extinguished, might look as looked that sightless Samson. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Shortly after we had been caged the amphitheater began to fill and within an hour every available part of the seating space was occupied. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The air that would be healthful to the earth, the water that would enrich it, the heat that would ripen it, tear it when caged up. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I asked, for his manner suggested that it was some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- They are caged up with all the others. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The dismal wind was muttering round the house, the tide was flapping at the shore, and I had a feeling that we were caged and threatened. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- And then, he added, whispering and grinning, if that ever was to happen--which it won't--the birds that have never been caged would kill 'em. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
校對:莫蒂默