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- a trap for catching and usually killing mice, especially one with a spring bar which snaps down on to the mouse when it touches a piece of cheese or other bait attached to the mechanism捕鼠器, 捕鼠夹。
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- （亦作mousetrap cheese）[mass noun] Brit. informal cheese of poor quality〈英, 非正式〉劣质乳酪。
with obj.
1- N. Amer. informal induce (someone) to do something by means of a trick〈北美, 非正式〉使（人）入圈套：
the editor mousetrapped her into giving him an article.
编辑诱使她写了一篇文章。
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- block (a user's) efforts to exit from a website, usually one to which they have been redirected阻止（用户）离开网站（通常是重定向网址）。
短语
a better mousetrap
- an improved version of a well-known article（物品的）改进版。
- ORIGIN: from 'If a man... make a better mouse-trap than his neighbour... the world will make a beaten path to his door', attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson.