2clever trick 聪明的计策TRICK/DECEIVE a clevertrick that is used to catch someone or to make them do or say something that they did not intend to 圈套,陷阱;诡计
lay/set a trap (for somebody)
Police had set a trap for hooligans at the match.
警方在那场比赛中给闹事者设了圈套。
fall/walk into a trap
Mr Smith has walked straight into a trap laid by the Tories.
史密斯先生直接落入了保守党布设的圈套。
3bad situation 恶劣的处境UNPLEASANTESCAPE an unpleasant or difficult situation that is difficult to escape from 牢笼;困境
Amanda felt that marriage was a trap.
阿曼达觉得婚姻是个牢笼。
debt/unemployment etc trap
people caught in the unemployment trap
陷入失业困境中的人们
4fall into/avoid the trap of doing somethingMISTAKEto do something that seems good at the time but is not sensible or wise, or to avoid doing this 落入/避开做某事的陷阱
Don’t fall into the trap of investing all your money in one place.
set ... trap• They are setting a trap for me, she decided.• Or, you can set traps for them to prevent then from reaching the pots to lay their eggs.• So Gharr no only had Mala but also knew our pod and had set a trap for me.• Beatrix had set a trap for Maurice and he had walked straight into it.• She sets a trap and sets off a series of events that entanglehousehold, family and friends.• She must remember to tell Mrs Cooke to set a trap.• It may be necessary to set a trap for him.
lay/set a trap (for somebody)• They are setting a trap for me, she decided.• Or, you can set traps for them to prevent then from reaching the pots to lay their eggs.• Beatrix had set a trap for Maurice and he had walked straight into it.• And the speaker may be totally unaware of laying a trap.• She sets a trap and sets off a series of events that entangle household, family and friends.• It may be necessary to set a trap for him.• Clare wouldn't put it past Sam to use a rat to lay a trap for her.
debt/unemployment etc trap• Job fears and the mortgagedebt trap are failing to halt the housing slump.• It became a more seriouspotentialdebt trap than running up bills at retailers.• Susan Georgereveals the dynamic behind the debt trap.• So could her friends Michelle, Lenny, Tony, Sue a whole line of people caught in the unemployment trap.• This is likely to be particularly serious if either the poverty trap or the unemployment trap is encountered.• This has led a number of commentators to argue that the unemployment trap is now of little importance to the real world.• The unemployment trap has been substantially eased and the simplification of social security has had major effects.
trap2 ●●○ verb (trapped, trapping) [transitiveT]
1in a dangerous place 在危险的地点PREVENT to prevent someone from escaping from somewhere, especially a dangerous place 困住;使陷于危险中
Twenty miners were trapped underground.
20名矿工被困在地下。
The building collapsed, trapping dozens of people in the rubble.
楼房倒塌,很多人被困在了瓦砾下面。
There’s no way out! We’re trapped!
出不去!我们被困住了!
nGrammar
Trap is often passive in this meaning.
2IN A BAD SITUATION 在恶劣的处境中be/feel trappedESCAPEto be in a bad situation from which you cannot escape 陷于困境/感觉被困住
be/feel trapped in
Julia felt trapped in her role of wife and mother.
朱莉娅觉得自己被为人妻母的角色束缚住了。
Examples from the Corpus
be/feel trapped• If they delayed any longer they'd be trapped.• Many employees in bureaucratic governments feel trapped.• Someday he will probably be trapped.• She wanted to be gone, away from this turmoil of passion, and yet she felt trapped by a sensuality undreamed of.• At 31, Peggy feels trapped in a boringjob.• They would be trapped in sun and light enough crossing the great unwinking glare and ovenbreath on their journey home.• It means you could be trapped in the flat if firebreaks out.• Without it, I fear, I could be trapped in Tuzla.• I felt trappedinside this person that was taking up more and more room.
3.animal 动物CATCH to catch an animal or bird using a trap 用陷阱捕猎,用捕捉器捕捉
4catch SB 抓住某人CATCH to catch someone by forcing them into a place from which they cannot escape 把…困住〔以便抓捕〕,迫使进入
trap somebody into (doing) something• The politicians had trapped him into a game played by their rules.• Teenagers like Kelly say the tough fines have trapped her into a life of prostitution.• This is an easy trap to fall into because humans quite naturally promote people on the basis of superiorperformance.• They have trapped Blue into doing nothing, into being so inactive-as to reduce his life to almost no life at all.• I must take no notice of their politeness or kindness which was designed to trap me into giving information.• Anthony says she trapped him intomarriage before he was ready.• But of course, you aren't out to trap me intomatrimony, so it is easier for you to be frank.• Line itembudgetstrap resources into old patterns.• The one touristtrap we fell into was St Tropez.
trapped nerve• She consulted the defendant specialist who performed an operation to free the trapped nerve.• The plaintiffsuffered a trapped nerve after a hernia operation.• The strong-running Kiwi has been out for around five weeks after a trapped nerve in his back.• But I've now got a trapped nerve in my neck.