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- a device or enclosure designed to catch and retain animals, typically by allowing entry but not exit or by catching hold of a part of the body陷阱, 罗网, 捕捉装置。
1.1
- the compartment from which a greyhound is released at the start of a race（赛狗开始时放灵冲出的）放狗隔栏。
2
- a situation in which people lie in wait to make a surprise attack伏击：
police deliberately herded 400 demonstrators into a trap and then attacked and arrested them.
警方有意将400名示威者诱入伏击点, 然后突然出击将他们逮捕。
2.1
- a trick by which someone is misled into acting contrary to their interests or intentions诡计, 陷阱：
by keeping quiet I was walking into a trap.
我默不作声正好入了圈套。
2.2
- an unpleasant situation from which it is hard to escape困境：
they fell into the trap of relying too little on equity finance.
他们陷入了对主权资金依赖程度过低的困境。
3
- with modifier a container or device used to collect something, or a place where something collects容器; 存贮装置：
one fuel filter and water trap are sufficient on the fuel system.
燃料系统只需一个燃料过滤器和集水器。
3.1
- a curve in the waste pipe from a bath, basin, or toilet that is always full of liquid and prevents gases from coming up the pipe into the building（浴池、水池、马桶的防臭气）存水弯, U形弯管。
3.2
- a bunker or other hollow on a golf course（高尔夫球场的）沙坑, 凹地。
4
- chiefly historical a light, two-wheeled carriage pulled by a horse or pony〈主史〉单马双轮轻便马车。
5
- a device for hurling an object such as a clay pigeon into the air to be shot at抛靶器（将泥鸽等抛于空中以打靶）。
5.1
- historical (in the game of trapball) the shoe-shaped device that is hit with a bat to send the ball into the air〈史〉（射球戏用的）抛球器。
6
- short for TRAPDOOR.TRAPDOOR的简称。
7
- informal a person's mouth (used in expressions to do with speaking)〈非正式〉嘴巴（用于与说话有关的表达法）：
keep your trap shut!
闭上你的嘴巴！
8
traps
informal (among jazz musicians) drums or percussion instruments〈非正式〉（爵士乐手的）鼓或打击乐器。
(trapped, trapping)with obj.
1
- catch (an animal) in a trap（用陷阱等捕捉装置）捕捉（动物）。
1.1
- （常作be trapped）prevent (someone) from escaping from a place阻止…逃跑, 使无法脱身：
twenty workers were trapped by flames.
二十名工人身陷火海。
1.2
- have (something, typically a part of the body) held tightly by something so that it cannot move or be freed（尤指身体某部位等）被卡住：
he had trapped his finger in a spring-loaded hinge.
他把手指卡在弹簧铰链里了。
1.3
- Soccer bring (the ball) under control with the feet or other part of the body on receiving it【英足】停（球）。
2
- trick or deceive (someone) into doing something contrary to their interests or intentions诱骗, 诱使, 设圈套使做：
I hoped to trap him into an admission.
我曾想诱他承认。
派生词
trap-like
adjective词源
Old English træppe （in coltetræppe 'Christ's thorn'）; related to Middle Dutch trappe and medieval Latin trappa, of uncertain origin. The verb dates from late Middle English.
词源
late Middle English: from the obsolete noun trap 'trappings'， from Old French drap 'drape'.