| 单词 | snare |
| 释义 | snareWord family nounsnarersnaringsnaresnare drumadjectivesnary Other sports snare1 /sneə $ sner/ noun [countableC] 1 HBADSOa trap for catching an animal, especially one that uses a wire or rope to catch the animal by its foot 〔捕捉动物的〕罗网，套索，陷阱 A rabbit was caught in the snare. 一只兔子被套索套住了。 2 literaryTRICK/DECEIVE something that is intended to trick someone and get them into a difficult situation 圈套，骗局，陷阱 SYN trap I didn’t want to fall into the same snare again. 我可不想再落入同样的圈套。 Examples from the Corpus snare• Humpback whales have even been seen to weave a snare of air-bubbles - a bubble net.• Just like humans, they go hunting with their blowpipes and they erect snares and traps in the jungle.• It was in those rabbit-runs through the gorse that some of the local boys used to set snares.• It is also a sort of high-tech snare, with State Police as hunters and hundreds of hapless cabbies their sorry prey.• When going to the C section keep the snare going. fall into ... snare• The Democrats have fallen into Republican snares, most conspicuously with the strange case of Rep. Other sports snare2 verb [transitiveT] 1. HBADSOto catch an animal by using a snare 〔用陷阱、罗网等等〕捕捉〔动物〕 2 TRICK/DECEIVEto get something or someone you want in a clever way, often by deceiving other people 诱获；诱使〔某人〕上当 She’s hoping to snare a wealthy husband. 她希望能钓到一个金龟婿。 Examples from the Corpus snare• Nielsen himself has snared a 15-pounder at San Pablo.• And it has failed to snare any major global accounts in several years.• For instance, the network has shelled out big bucks to snare Bill Cosby for a new sitcom in the fall.• Attempts to snare even rabbits became dangerous forays.• Boggs is one of three people snared in an ongoing federal investigation.• Coevolution can be seen as two parties snared in the web of mutual propaganda.• This fallacy has snared philosophers from Plato to Leibniz and beyond, and it still snares many major physicists.• He added that attempts were being made to snare them by hanging nets between trees. (1000-1100) Old Norse snara |
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