1HBADSOa 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。
2literaryTRICK/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• Humpbackwhales have even been seen to weave a snare of air-bubbles - a bubblenet.• Just like humans, they go hunting with their blowpipes and they erectsnares 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-techsnare, with State Police as hunters and hundreds of haplesscabbies their sorryprey.• When going to the Csection keep the snare going.
fall into ... snare• The Democrats have fallen into Republican snares, most conspicuously with the strange case of Rep.