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

• Who spits silk dimensions THROUGH THE noose looped by the raft?
  谁吐通过木筏环绞索丝尺寸？
• Sikes made a running noose, and called him again.
  赛克斯打了个一勒就紧的套结，又叫他一声。
• 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。
• My noose setup, among other things.
  其中包括那套活结装置。
• 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。
• He cut the rope then and went astern to noose the tail.
  然后他割下一截绳子，走到船梢去套住鱼尾巴。
• That noose was a pain in the neck.
  这套索要挂脖子上可真痛苦。
• The rebels are tightening the noose around the capital
  叛乱分子正在收紧对首都的包围。
• Dexter: the noose is tightening.
  绳子勒得更紧了。
• Yet elsewhere the economic noose may bring better news.
  但在其它地区，这种经济绞索可能会带来更好的结果。