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cagekeIJn [C]a space surrounded on all sides by bars or wire in which animals or birds are kept, or something which is similar to this in form or purpose笼子Zoos are moving away from keeping animals in small cages.动物园正改变笼养动物的做法。Richard's rabbit cage was kept in the yard.里查德的兔笼在院子里。(fig.) When I was ill my room was my cage (=felt like a prison).我生病时,房间就像笼子。"A Robin Redbreast in a Cage / Puts all Heaven in a Rage"(William Blake in the poem Auguries of Innocence, 1803)“笼子里的知更鸟/不顾一切地发泄愤怒”(威廉·布莱克,《天真的凶兆》)
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