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catch1 /kætʃ/ S1 W1 verb (past tensepst and past participlepp caught /kɔːt $ kɒːt/)

take and hold 接住HOLD

a) [intransitiveI, transitiveT]HOLD to get hold of and stop an object such as a ball that is moving through the air 接住〔在空中移动的物体〕 → throw

Stephen leapt up and caught the ball in one hand.

斯蒂芬跳起来一手接住了球。

‘Pass me that pen, would you?’ ‘Here you are. Catch!’

“把那支钢笔递给我，好吗？”“给你，接着！”

The kids were throwing and catching a Frisbee down on the beach.

小孩子们在海滩那边抛接飞盘。

b) [transitiveT]HOLD to suddenly take hold of someone or something with your hand 突然抓住

He caught her elbow to steady her.

他一把抓住她的肘部让她站稳。

Miss Perry caught hold of my sleeve and pulled me back.

佩里小姐抓住我的袖子，把我拉了回来。

2 STOP/TRAP somebodyfind/stop SB 抓住某人 [transitiveT]

a) CATCHto stop someone after you have been chasing them and not let them get away 抓住，捉住

‘You can’t catch me!’ she yelled, running away.

“你抓不到我的！”她大声叫着跑开了。

b) CATCHto find a criminal or enemy and stop them from escaping 捕获，逮住，抓住〔罪犯或敌人〕 SYN capture

State police have launched a massive operation to catch the murderer.

州警方展开了大规模行动抓捕凶手。

If you go back to the city, you’re bound to get caught.

如果你回到城里，肯定会被抓住。

3 see SB doing STH 看到某人在做某事FIND somebody DOING somethingCATCH [transitiveT] to see someone doing something that they did not want you to know they were doing 撞见，发现，当场抓住〔某人正在干不想让你知道的事〕

catch somebody doing something

I caught him reading my private letters.

我看到他在偷看我的私人信件。

Gemma turned around and caught the stranger looking at her intently.

杰玛转过身来，发现那个陌生人正紧盯着她看。

catch somebody in the act (of doing something) (=catch someone while they are doing something illegal) 当场抓住某人（在做非法之事）

The gang was caught in the act of unloading the cigarettes.

那伙人在卸香烟时当场被抓。

He was caught red-handed (=as he was doing something wrong) taking money from the cash register.

他从现金出纳机偷钱时被当场抓住。

catch somebody at it

We knew he’d been cheating, but we’d never caught him at it before.

我们知道他一直在做手脚，不过我们以前从未当场抓到过他。

4 illness 疾病 [transitiveT]GET to get an infectious disease 患上〔传染病〕，感染上…

Anton caught malaria in Mali, and nearly died.

安东在马里染上疟疾，差点丢了性命。

Many young people are still ignorant about how HIV is caught.

许多年轻人对艾滋病病毒是如何染上的仍然一无所知。

catch something from/off somebody/something

Typhoid and cholera are often caught from contaminated water supplies.

伤寒和霍乱通常是经由受污染的水源传播的。

I caught chicken pox off my friend at school.

我从学校里的一个朋友那里传染上了水痘。

catch your death (of cold) British EnglishBrE spoken (=get a very bad cold) 得重感冒

Don’t stand out in the rain. You’ll catch your death.

别站在外面淋雨，你会得重感冒的。

5 catch somebody by surprise, catch somebody off guard, catch somebody napping/unawarescatch somebody off guard, catch somebody napping/unawares catch somebody by surprise (also catch somebody on the hop British EnglishBrE)EXPECT to do something or to happen when someone is not expecting it or prepared for it 使某人吃惊，使某人措手不及

Her question caught him off guard.

她的问题让他措手不及。

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catch somebody by surprise, catch somebody off guard, catch somebody napping/unawares• My pregnancy caught us by surprise, but we're happy about it.• The public's reaction obviously caught the governor off guard.

6 catch somebody with their pants/trousers down to discover that someone is doing something that they should not be doing or has not done something that they should have done 〔出其不意地做某事〕使某人猝不及防，令某人突陷窘境

7 animal/fish 动物/鱼类 [transitiveT]CATCH to trap an animal or fish by using a trap, net, or hook, or by hunting it 〔用陷阱、网、钩等〕捕捉

8 catch a train/plane/bus ON TIMEto get on a train, plane etc in order to travel on it, or to be in time to get on a train, plane etc before it leaves 赶上火车/飞机/公共汽车

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catch a train/plane/bus• I should be able to catch the 12:05 train.• I could catch a bus back into town.• After the debate, they dined on hamburgers and talked sports at a local joint before catching a train back to Washington.• They returned to their hotel, packed their bags, and left for Penn Station to catch a train for Washington.• Kevin catches the bus home on Mondays and Wednesdays.• He caught a plane last night.• Peter arranged a taxi to Victoria for me to catch a train to Gatwick and the last flight to Edinburgh.• Chris and Patrick had caught a train to London and taken a taxi straight to Richie's flat.• Maybe she had caught a train to New Rochelle.• The second time I caught a bus to the coast.

9 not miss SB/STH 未错过某人/某物BE IN TIME [transitiveT]TCM to not be too late to do something, see something, talk to someone etc 及时赶上 OPP miss

10 get stuck 被卡住 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]NOT MOVING if your hand, finger, clothing etc catches or is caught in something, it gets stuck in it accidentally （被）夹住；（被）卡住；（被）钩住

11 catch somebody’s attention/interest/imagination etc NOTICEto make you notice something and feel interested in it 引起某人的注意/兴趣/想象等

12 not catch something HEAR spoken to not hear or understand what someone says 没听到某事，没听清某事；没听懂某事

13 hear 听到 [transitiveT] to manage to hear a sound 听到，听见

14 catch you later spoken used to say goodbye 再见

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catch you later• Okay, Randy, catch you later.

15 do/see STH 做/看见某事 [transitiveT] spoken especially American EnglishAmE to go somewhere in order to do or see something 去做〔某事〕；去看〔某物〕

16 catch a ride American EnglishAmE spoken to go somewhere in someone else’s car 搭便车

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catch a ride• I caught a ride as far as Columbus, then hitched to Athens.• The next morning, all bandaged up, I stuck out my thumb and caught a ride to Tay Ninh.• Can I catch a ride with you?• Maybe I should call her and catch a ride with you.

17 you won’t catch me doing something (also you won’t catch me somewhere) spokenNEVER used to say that you would never do something 别指望我会做某事，我不可能做某事

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you won’t catch me doing something• You won't catch me ironing his shirts!

18 catch it PUNISH informal to be punished by someone such as a parent or teacher because you have done something wrong 受罚，挨骂

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catch it• I guess that tells you where I caught it.• Or a cat will bring home a live mouse to teach her kittens how to catch it.• Almost everyone caught it and almost a third of the population either died from it or had their faces permanently scarred.• She had locked the screen, he knew, to keep the wind from catching it and tearing it off its hinges.• She threw the door open, catching it before it could strike the wall.• I caught it, held it in my fingers and put it out of the window.• It harasses other gulls until they drop their hard-won food and then swoops down to catch it - often in mid-air.

19 catch a glimpse of somebody/something to see someone or something for a very short time 看一眼某人/某物

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catch a glimpse of somebody/something• He caught a glimpse of a pinup calendar above a dressing table, some bars of Lifebuoy soap.• In the warm yellow light of the dining car windows I caught a glimpse of a woman raising a wine glass.• Back on the main road, Robert caught a glimpse of Aziz the janitor.• Many had waited for hours to catch a glimpse of him.• Sometimes I had caught glimpses of his shadow on the wall.• As they rode cautiously along, Fenella caught glimpses of movement in between the trees.• As she turned to go, Baby Suggs caught a glimpse of some-thing dark on the bed sheet.• This year it is different, and well worth catching a glimpse of the latest from the world's car makers.

20 catch sight of somebody/something to suddenly see someone or something that you have been looking for or have been hoping to see 忽然看到〔一直在寻找或希望看到的〕某人/某物

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catch sight of somebody/something• I caught sight of Bobby doing bench presses on a Universal machine near the far wall.• In that sorrowful but lovely spot, shaded with groves of myrtle, Aeneas caught sight of Dido.• He had first caught sight of her riding in a ploughed field beyond the barbed wire perimeter of the air base.• Jeopardy's eyes slid to the left and he caught sight of Lucien.• The crowd in the barroom had caught sight of Mulcahey and called for him to come in.• As they neared James River and caught sight of our gunboats, a cheer went up from each regiment.• As she caught sight of the house, Breeze came to an abrupt standstill, nearly falling over her own feet.• Meryl caught sight of two female journalists, trendy in jumpsuits, their faces hard and confident.

21 describe well 成功描述 [transitiveT]DESCRIBE to show or describe the character or quality of something well in a picture, piece of writing etc 〔图画、文章等〕成功地展现[描述] SYN capture

22 BURNburn 燃烧

23 catch somebody’s eye

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catch somebody’s eye• All of a sudden, something red caught Barb's eye.• I was walking through the market when a beautiful dress caught my eye.• I caught Ben's eye in the rear-view mirror and knew what he was thinking.• Wright caught the eye of filmmaker Spike Lee, who featured him in a jeans commercial.

24 catch yourself doing something REALIZEto suddenly realize you are doing something 突然意识到自己在做某事

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catch yourself doing something• I caught myself watching everybody else instead of paying attention to the lecture.

25 hit 击打 [transitiveT]HIT to hit someone in or on a particular part of their body 击中，打到

26 be/get caught in/without etc something DIFFICULTto be in a situation that you cannot easily get out of or in which you do not have something you need 处于困境/缺少某物等

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be/get caught in/without etc something• Don't expect to be caught in the rush.• He is caught in a storm and crashes.• He was caught in the end, trying to bury one of the bodies in the cemetery, in a fresh grave.• She was caught in the seducing current, and she could not break free.• The actual death toll is much greater because thousands more turtles are caught in fishing nets and suffocate.• The Tokyo government is caught in a dilemma, according to Hazelwood.• They are caught in this place of denial and unrealized emotion and desire.• Worse, he was caught in the cross fire of local conflicts.

27 catch your breath

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catch your breath• And then history paused, just to catch its breath.• Busacher slumped into the passenger seat and sat catching his breath.• I said, falling on to a chair, trying to catch my breath.• She could hear Moxie catching her breath.• The slow movement of this performance is particularly fine, with pianissimos that have you catching your breath.• Both waders immediately filled and I caught my breath as freezing April waters began to stimulate sensitive nether regions.• Tokyo stocks fell Monday as investors caught their breath following a strong advance over the two previous sessions.• She caught her breath in fear, holding it until the answer came.

28 container 容器 [transitiveT]KEEP/STORE if a container catches liquid, it is in a position where the liquid falls into it 接住，盛住〔液体〕

29 shine 照射 [transitiveT]SHINY if the light catches something or if something catches the light, the light shines on it 照在；受…的照射

30 catch the sun informalMI if you catch the sun, your skin becomes red and sometimes sore because of the effects of sunlight 皮肤被晒红[伤]

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catch the sun• Dalgliesh could glimpse what was obviously her herb garden planted in elegant terracotta pots carefully disposed to catch the sun.• My chair with its high back and strong iron wheels is positioned correctly to catch the sun.• Perhaps she had caught the sun.• Before his eyes dull muddy grass turned into soft reflective banks which caught the sun a thousand ways.• These beautiful evergreen trees catch the sun and produce wonderful sculptural forms.• A flock of dunlin flew across the marsh in a silver swirl, catching the sun, dazzling the eye.• Up in the woods many of the buds that catch the sun have begun to pop.• Their fantastically long tails danced behind like bridal trains and burst into colour when they caught the sun's final rays.

31 wind 风 [transitiveT] if something catches the wind or the wind catches something, it blows on it 截住〔风〕，受〔风〕

32 sport 体育运动SPORT

THESAURUS – Meaning 2:

catch to stop someone who is trying to escape, especially by running after them and then holding them 逮住，抓住〔试图逃跑的人〕

He raced after her, but he couldn’t catch her.

他在她后面拼命地追，但是抓不住她。

The police caught the bank robbers after a car chase through the city.

警察在城里进行一场汽车追逐战后抓住了银行劫匪。

arrest if the police arrest someone, they take him or her to a police station because they think that person has done something illegal 逮捕，拘捕

Wayne was arrested for dangerous driving.

韦恩因危险驾驶而被捕。

The police arrested him and charged him with murder.

警方拘捕了他，并控告他犯有谋杀罪。

apprehend formal if the police apprehend someone they think has done something illegal, they catch him or her 拘捕，拘押

The two men were later apprehended after they robbed another store.

那两名男子后来因为又抢劫一家商店而被拘捕。

The killers were never apprehended.

那些凶手一直未被捉拿归案。

nAll of the kidnappers were apprehended and convicted.

capture to catch an enemy or a criminal in order to keep them as a prisoner 俘虏〔敌人〕；捕获〔罪犯〕

The French king was captured by the English at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.

1356年，法国国王在普瓦捷战役中被英国人俘虏。

The gunmen were finally captured after a shoot-out with the police.

持枪歹徒与警方进行了一场枪战后终被擒获。

take somebody prisoner to catch someone, especially in a war, in order to keep them as a prisoner 〔尤指在战争中〕俘虏〔某人〕

350 soldiers were killed and another 300 taken prisoner.

350名士兵战死，另有300名被俘。

nEllison was taken prisoner by the Germans during the retreat to Dunkirk.

trap to make someone go to a place from which they cannot escape, especially by using your skill and intelligence 〔尤指用巧计〕把…逼进，迫使…进入

Police trapped the man inside a bar on the city’s southside.

警方在城市南区的一个酒吧里堵住了那名男子。

corner to force someone into a place from which they cannot escape 把…困住，把…逼入困境

He was cornered outside the school by three gang members.

他在学校外面被3名匪徒堵住了。

PHRASAL VERBS

36 catch up phrasal verbphr v

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catch up• If you miss a lot of school, it will be very difficult to catch up.• The other players in the team are better than me, but I'm slowly catching them up.• We need to start cycling faster or we'll never catch up.• Although she had never studied German before, Jane soon caught up with the others.• The police car caught up with the stolen van after a long chase.• Go on ahead. I'll catch up with you later.

catch with• So let's catch up with all the action as we go spinning the globe.• Agents finally caught up with Danvers in Mexico City.• The dinner was a pleasant opportunity for members to catch up with each other's news.• I wanted to catch up with him.• And I would have to hurry to catch up with it.• Latecomers hurriedly kneel and bow, trying to catch up with the group prayer in progress.• From the blurred picture you can see the vital point when the clubhead is catching up with the hands.• The U.S. spent a lot of money trying to catch up with the Soviet Union in space exploration.• It is a day for household chores, for cleaning and scrubbing, or to catch up with their religious studies.

catch with• So let's catch up with all the action as we go spinning the globe.• The dinner was a pleasant opportunity for members to catch up with each other's news.• I wanted to catch up with him.• And I would have to hurry to catch up with it.• Latecomers hurriedly kneel and bow, trying to catch up with the group prayer in progress.• From the blurred picture you can see the vital point when the clubhead is catching up with the hands.• It is a day for household chores, for cleaning and scrubbing, or to catch up with their religious studies.

catch on• Many slump into seats, some catching up on a little sleep before the day begins.• Britain's Ellen MacArthur, in second place, reported that she had been catching up on a lot of lost sleep.• Although the commute takes 80 minutes by mass transit, he uses the time to catch up on his reading.• We were rescued by Truc who had again been trying to catch up on his sleep farther down the open carriage.• To catch up on news and gossip.• Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer, Katy Clark.• Already, statistics were catching up on them.• This is a time to catch up on urgent paperwork and swap stories with colleagues about the events of the day.

be/get caught up in something• When this is augmented by oddly tangential keyboard sounds it's an enjoyable little maelstrom to be caught up in.• Rather than just evolving in a gradual, uniform manner, the earth may actually be caught up in a repeating cycle.• I am painfully aware of how we get caught up in our times and become contaminated by our own hypocrisy.• Kenetech got caught up in that.• I thought at one time it might be caught up in the Christmas post.• We get caught up in the commercial aspects of Christmas.• And that headdress would get caught up in the overhead wires, you silly boy.• Landowners who get caught up in this bureaucratic runaround receive no compensation for their economic loss as a result of wetland determination.• Some of these girls get caught up in this freedom idea.

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catch• "Can I see that pen?" "Sure, catch."• They were questioning me about whether I could catch.• A lot of burglars never get caught.• Dion caught a cold on vacation.• I only caught about the last 20 minutes of the movie.• It's a really funny play, but goes too fast to catch all the jokes.• "We went fishing." "Did you catch anything?"• In this way there is less chance of being caught at a disadvantage or being ambushed by circumstances.• They too were caught by surprise.• I managed to catch her just as she was leaving the office.• I didn't catch his first name.• Linder appeared to waver for a moment, like a leaf caught in a breeze.• You caught me, I came willingly, and we enjoyed each other.• "You can't catch me!" she yelled.• "I bet you can't catch me!" yelled Katie, skipping away.• I was about to correct him, but I caught myself in time.• Every time I get caught or arrested I get asthma.• If we're quick, we should still be able to catch our train.• If you call around 8:30, you might catch Shirley.• Brooks was caught smoking in an airplane lavatory and fined $750 dollars.• Denise caught the bride's bouquet.• I think I must have caught the flu from Sarah.• As Yvonne shook her head, her earrings caught the light from the candles.• Before his eyes dull muddy grass turned into soft reflective banks which caught the sun a thousand ways.• From within, I catch the trill of a Pogues song.• I caught their act at the Blue Note Jazz Club.• Did you catch what the book's called?• Go on, jump. I'll catch you.

caught hold of• It caught hold of a chair and, with a great deal of grunting, managed to tip it over.• Taking her completely by surprise, he caught hold of her arm and pulled her towards him.• I was just going to, when a guard caught hold of me.• That day, he caught hold of me.• On March 4 she caught hold of the end of her buggy and twice pulled herself to her feet.• He fainted from pain but caught hold of the iron railing of a house and remained erect.• Bowman caught hold of the short lever fastened to the valve and with his last strength pulled it down.

get caught• On the wrong side of the knitting, this looks much neater and stops little fingers getting caught!• That way there'd be less chance of getting caught.• Nobody but the kids and I knew about it, and I never got caught by the eagle-eyed press.• Munir Karajah got caught in the crossfire on a riotous day in Hebron earlier this year.• I got caught in the middle of it.• But if we get caught, our lives can be traumatically affected.• And who got caught standing in the rain as gaskets blew and transmissions ground to a halt?• I am painfully aware of how we get caught up in our times and become contaminated by our own hypocrisy.

catch somebody doing something• If you get caught stealing in some countries, they cut off your hand.• The officer caught me going 70 miles an hour, so I got a ticket.

catch your death (of cold)• And let him catch his death of cold?

catch the post• On his return he wrote several letters rather hurriedly because he was anxious to catch the post.

getting caught• On the wrong side of the knitting, this looks much neater and stops little fingers getting caught!• That way there'd be less chance of getting caught.• The poorer ones lack the means to get out, and keep getting caught.• Funny thing is, he repeated the mistake in Game 4, getting caught in a rundown between second and third base.• Do you understand the danger of getting caught in the middle? 7.• Be careful of getting caught in the trap of total involvement with your computer.• I could see her debate, trying to decide which was worse: infuriating Rosie or getting caught spying on Lila Sams.• This will prevent it from getting caught up.

catch a movie• Would you like to go to dinner, maybe catch a movie?• Would you like to go to dinner, maybe catch a movie?• Area jazz clubs and coffeehouses offer live music while visitors can catch a movie at one of two main theater complexes.

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