noose

英 [nuːs]

美 [nuːs]

n.  绳套; 套索; 活扣
vt.  用套索捉; 使落入圈套; 处以绞刑

复数：nooses　过去分词：noosed　现在分词：noosing　过去式：noosed　第三人称单数：nooses　

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.22641 / COCA.14639

牛津词典

noun

• 绳套；套索；活扣
  a circle that is tied in one end of a rope with a knot that allows the circle to get smaller as the other end of the rope is pulled
  1. a hangman's noose
     绞索
  2. His debts were a noose around his neck.
     债务就像套在他脖子上的一条套索。

柯林斯词典

• 绳套;套索;活扣
  Anooseis a circular loop at the end of a piece of rope or wire. A noose is tied with a knot that allows it to be tightened, and it is usually used to trap animals or hang people.
• N-COUNT 束缚;圈套;陷阱
  You can refer to something that traps people in a difficult situation as anoosearound their neck.
  1. The rebels are tightening the noose around the capital...
     叛乱分子正在收紧对首都的包围。
  2. Too often women find their jobs turning into nooses around their neck.
     女性常常感到工作成了一种束缚。

英英释义

noun

• a loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot
  Synonym:running nooseslip noose
• a trap for birds or small mammals
  Synonym:snaregin

verb

• secure with a noose
• make a noose in or of

双语例句

• I found a piece of rope, made a noose, slipped it about the kitten's neck.
  我找来一根绳子，打了个扣，顺手一撸套上了小猫的脖子。
• That is to say, we already suffer a cruel exploitation since we lower our head and hand over the noose on neck to globalization to start English study.
  因为我们降低我们的头而且将在脖子上的套索移交给全球化开始英文研究，也就是说，我们已经遭受一个残酷的开发。
• I want you to stand up there and put your head in that noose.
  我要你站上去，然后把头伸到套索里。
• Who spits silk dimensions THROUGH THE noose looped by the raft?
  谁吐通过木筏环绞索丝尺寸？
• One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree.
  一天早晨，我残忍地用套索勒住它的脖子，并把它吊在了树枝上。
• Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.
  要注意荣耀必会坠落到只有数英吋的套索。
• Too often women find their jobs turning into nooses around their neck.
  女性常常感到工作成了一种束缚。
• The other got busted, went the noose route in his cell.
  还有一个被发现后在自己的地下室上吊了。
• That noose was a pain in the neck.
  这套索要挂脖子上可真痛苦。
• This time you have really put your head in the noose.
  这次你真是自投罗网了。