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

• 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。
• Gather around, everybody. there's "good noose" tonight.
  所有人都集合，今晚将有绞刑。
• He's supposed to be headed back with the noose.
  他应该把套索带回去了。
• Who spits silk dimensions THROUGH THE noose looped by the raft?
  谁吐通过木筏环绞索丝尺寸？
• But I don't see why I should put my head in a noose to conceal his affair.
  但我不明白我为什么要自讨苦吃，去帮他隐瞒他的风流韵事。
• You asked us to say,'We have caught the sniper like a duck in a noose.
  你们希望听到我们说：'我们抓获那个杀手就像抓住绳套里的鸭子一样。'。
• 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。
• 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。
• While the otter is going about this task, the rabbit fashions a noose from tree bark.
  趁着水獭抓鸭子的工夫，兔子用树皮做了一个绳套。