Trap
[træp]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
(noun.) a light two-wheeled carriage.
(noun.) a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters.
(noun.) drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas.
(noun.) informal terms for the mouth.
(noun.) something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares; 'the exam was full of trap questions'; 'it was all a snare and delusion'.
(verb.) to hold fast or prevent from moving; 'The child was pinned under the fallen tree'.
(verb.) catch in or as if in a trap; 'The men trap foxes'.
(verb.) hold or catch as if in a trap; 'The gaps between the teeth trap food particles'.
(verb.) place in a confining or embarrassing position; 'He was trapped in a difficult situation'.
伊娃手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.
(n.) An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock.
(a.) Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.
(n.) A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes.
(n.) Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.
(n.) A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot at.
(n.) The game of trapball.
(n.) A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids.
(n.) A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
(n.) A wagon, or other vehicle.
(n.) A kind of movable stepladder.
(v. t.) To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.
(v. t.) Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
(v. t.) To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.
(v. i.) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.
埃里卡手打
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Snare, gin, trapan.
v. a. Insnare, entrap, trapan.
珍妮特手打
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Snare, ambush, stratagem, noose, pitfall
ANT:Warning, beacon, signal-post, lighthouse, premonition
贝琪校對
解釋/意思:
n. a term loosely applied to many rocks of volcanic origin so called because lying often in steps or terraces.—adjs. Trap′pēan Trap′pous Trap′py.—ns. Trap′-tū′fa -tuff a variety of tufa consisting of the detrital matter of trap-rock.
n. an instrument for snaring animals: an ambush: a stratagem: a contrivance for hindering the passage of foul air from a waste-pipe &c.: a trap-door: any rickety structure: a carriage a vehicle: (slang) a policeman.—v.t. to catch in a trap:—pr.p. trap′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. trapped.—ns. Trap′-ball an old game played with a ball or bat and trap; Trap′-door a door in a floor shutting like the catch of a trap; Trap′-fall a trap-door which gives way beneath the feet; Trap′per one who traps animals for their fur &c.; Trap′piness the state of being trappy or unsafe; Trap′ping; Trap′-stair a stair or kind of ladder surmounted by a trap-door.—adj. Trap′py treacherous.
v.t. to drape or adorn with gay clothes: to ornament:—pr.p. trap′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. trapped.—n. a horse-cloth: (pl.) one's personal belongings luggage.—n.pl. Trap′pings gay clothes: ornaments esp. those put on horses.
阿尔塔編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To see a fly-trap in a dream, is signal of malicious designing against you. To see one full of flies, denotes that small embarrassments will ward off greater ones.
To dream of setting a trap, denotes that you will use intrigue to carry out your designs If you are caught in a trap, you will be outwitted by your opponents. If you catch game in a trap, you will flourish in whatever vocation you may choose. To see an empty trap, there will be misfortune in the immediate future. An old or broken trap, denotes failure in business, and sickness in your family may follow.
手打:托马斯
例句/造句/用法:
- Mr. Carruthers has got a trap, and so the dangers of the lonely road, if there ever were any dangers, are now over. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Receiving this reply, Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite did, what all animals (human and otherwise) do, when they find themselves caught in a trap. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Then he commenced groping his way about the floor of the dark chamber searching for the trap that led to the corridors beneath. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- You must have seen yourself that Sergeant Cuff laid a trap for both of us. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- A thousand times I berated myself for being drawn into such a trap as I might have known these pits easily could be. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- I followed still, up a very narrow staircase to the attics, and thence by a ladder and through a trap-door to the roof of the hall. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- At Dewlish in Dorset, an artificial trench has been found which is supposed to have been a Pal?olithic trap for elephants. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I meant trapped at all. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The gardens swarmed with brilliantly trapped black men and women. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- And you don't feel trapped? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The father however was trapped between two halftruths, and broken. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- A second later the wall swung in, and I was pushed within a brilliantly lighted chamber in which sat three richly trapped men. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- You always feel trapped biologically. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Robespierre and his last companions found themselves betrayed and trapped. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Your moral clap-traps have an excellent effect in England--keep them for yourself and your own countrymen, if you please. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Little recked Mr Podsnap of the traps and toils besetting his Young Person. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Without remarking that man-traps were not among the amenities of life, I said I supposed he was very skilful? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Let them put the horse in the stable, and tell the surveyors they can come back for their traps, said Fred. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Man-traps and spring-guns are set here at all times of the day and night. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He accepted, and is coming with his traps this evening. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Why, the traps have got him, and that's all about it,' said the Dodger, sullenly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- It became a question whether he had fallen among the unrecognized; but no broken ornament or stained trapping betrayed his fate. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It's what I should expect, when a fellow like Trapping Bass is let off so easily. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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