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trap

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trap1 /træp/ ●●○ noun [countableC]
1  trap.jpg for animals 用於動物CATCH a piece of equipment for catching animals 〔捕捉動物的〕夾子，羅網，陷阱
The only way to catch mice is to set a trap.
抓老鼠的唯一辦法就是放置捕鼠器。
He stepped into a bear trap covered in snow.
他踩到了埋在雪裏的一個捕熊夾。
→ mousetrap →4  See picture of 見圖 trap
2  clever trick 聰明的計策TRICK/DECEIVE a clever trick that is used to catch someone or to make them do or say something that they did not intend to 圈套，陷阱；詭計
lay/set a trap (for somebody)
Police had set a trap for hooligans at the match.
警方在那場比賽中給鬧事者設了圈套。
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黨布設的圈套。
3  bad situation 惡劣的處境UNPLEASANTESCAPE an unpleasant or difficult situation that is difficult to escape from 牢籠；困境
Amanda felt that marriage was a trap.
阿曼達覺得婚姻是個牢籠。
debt/unemployment etc trap
people caught in the unemployment trap
陷入失業困境中的人們
4  fall into/avoid the trap of doing something MISTAKEto do something that seems good at the time but is not sensible or wise, or to avoid doing this 落入/避開做某事的陷阱
Don’t fall into the trap of investing all your money in one place.
不要掉進陷阱，把你所有的錢都投資到一個地方。
Examples from the Corpus
fall into/avoid the trap of doing something• Don't fall into the trap of comparing your wages and conditions with other volunteers and development workers.• Duffy refuses to fall into the trap of spoon-feeding the material to passive students, which only increases their passivity.• During the 90s Washington fell into the trap of allowing events to dictate the relationship, with increasingly destabilising results.• Journalists can fall into the trap of being hypercritical.• She was not going to fall into the trap of thinking she wanted Vitor as Vitor.• So answer this question truthfully, lest your smart organization fall into the trap of continuing to outsmart itself.• When we tie it to jobs, or to survival needs, we fall into the trap of mechanistic literacy.• But do not fall into the trap of doing something I saw recently.
5  keep your trap shut spokenQUIET a rude way of telling someone to not say anything about things that are secret 閉上你的嘴〔一種無禮的說法，叫某人不要把秘密說出去〕
Just keep your trap shut.
你就閉嘴吧。
Examples from the Corpus
keep your trap shut• Tell him to keep his trap shut and let me ask the questions.
6. shut your trap! spokenQUIET a rude way of telling someone to stop talking 閉上你的嘴！
7. vehicle 車輛TTB a vehicle with two wheels, pulled by a horse 雙輪輕便馬車
8. sport 體育運動 American EnglishAmEDSG sandtrap 〔高爾夫球場的〕沙坑 SYN British English bunker
9. dog race 賽狗DSO a special gate from which a greyhound is set free at the beginning of a race 〔賽狗開始時放狗出籠的〕圍欄
→ booby trap, death trap, → poverty trap at poverty(3), → speed trap, tourist trap
Examples from the Corpus
trap• I didn't take the money with me, because I was worried it might be a trap.• He informed the Sheriffs of his planned meeting, and helped lay another trap to make the final arrests.• But trappers will keep tabs on the extra traps until February, officials said.• Usually Gloria told her to shut her trap.• To cap it off, the last but one trap contained a ten pounder.• The sun was moving across the sky and we had almost forgotten to check our traps.• If we're lucky, the thief will fall right into our trap.• This is the phenomenon generally known as the poverty trap.• Sensing the lawyer's trap, Horvath refused to answer.• They rolled faster and faster, a steel trap of locomotion and churning rhythms, down the hill.
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 entangle household, 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 mortgage debt trap are failing to halt the housing slump.• It became a more serious potential debt trap than running up bills at retailers.• Susan George reveals 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]
1  in a dangerous place 在危險的地點PREVENT to prevent someone from escaping from somewhere, especially a dangerous place 困住；使陷於危險中
Twenty miners were trapped underground.
20名礦工被困在地下。
The building collapsed, trapping dozens of people in the rubble.
樓房倒塌，很多人被困在了瓦礫下面。
There’s no way out! We’re trapped!
出不去！我們被困住了！
n Grammar
Trap is often passive in this meaning.
2  IN A BAD SITUATION 在惡劣的處境中be/feel trapped ESCAPEto be in a bad situation from which you cannot escape 陷於困境/感覺被困住
be/feel trapped in
Julia felt trapped in her role of wife and mother.
朱莉娅覺得自己被爲人妻母的角色束縛住了。
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 boring job.• They would be trapped in sun and light enough crossing the great unwinking glare and oven breath on their journey home.• It means you could be trapped in the flat if fire breaks out.• Without it, I fear, I could be trapped in Tuzla.• I felt trapped inside this person that was taking up more and more room.
3. animal 動物CATCH to catch an animal or bird using a trap 用陷阱捕獵，用捕捉器捕捉
4  catch 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〕，迫使進入
The police trapped the terrorists at a roadblock.
警察在設有路障的地方堵住了恐怖分子。
► see thesaurus at catch
5  trick 欺騙TRICK/DECEIVE to trick someone so that you make them do or say something that they did not intend to 使陷入圈套，使中計
trap somebody into (doing) something
I was trapped into signing a confession.
我被騙簽了一份供詞。
6  crush 擠壓SQUASH British EnglishBrE to get a part of your body crushed between two objects 夾住，卡住 SYN American English pinch
Mind you don’t trap your fingers in the door.
小心别讓門夾了手指頭。
pain from a trapped nerve
神經受壓迫引起的疼痛
7  gas/water etc 氣體/水等KEEP/STORE to prevent something such as gas or water from getting away 留存，儲存〔氣、水等〕
solar panels that trap the sun’s heat
儲存太陽熱量的太陽能電池板
Examples from the Corpus
trap• Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, each molecule trapping 25 times as much heat radiation as one molecule of carbon dioxide.• Then the Eustachian tube collapsed and the material was trapped.• The men were trapped at a road block near the junction of I-95 and Route 128.• Greenhouse gases trap heat in the earth's atmosphere.• Some trapped heat is necessary to sustain life, but excessive accumulation can lead to warming.• You know there is a gay man trapped in her body!• Also, one photo shows a large object that resembles an iceberg trapped in solid sea ice.• Workers were trapped in the ship's engine room by the fire.• Police have the man trapped inside a bar on the city's southside.• Police have the man trapped inside the bar.• I meant at least to insulate the nest with some polystyrene ceiling tiles, but I was afraid of trapping the animal inside.• The pollution is worst during winter, when thermal inversions trap the warmer polluted air above the city.
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 superior performance.• 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 into marriage before he was ready.• But of course, you aren't out to trap me into matrimony, so it is easier for you to be frank.• Line item budgets trap resources into old patterns.• The one tourist trap we fell into was St Tropez.
trapped nerve• She consulted the defendant specialist who performed an operation to free the trapped nerve.• The plaintiff suffered 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.
Origin trap1
Old English træppe, treppe

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