單詞詳解 | noose


noose
音標(biāo):
美音:/nu?s/,英音:/nu?s/
聽聽基本釋意:
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外刊例句:
He is seen holding a photo of his son in one hand and clutches his own throat with the other hand, mimicking a noose.
有人看到他一只手拿著兒子的照片,另一只手捂著自己的喉嚨,模仿套索。
—BBC
Russian forces were continuing to tighten the noose around Bakhmut, the hotly contested city in eastern Ukraine that has become an unlikely focus of the year-old war.
俄羅斯軍隊繼續(xù)收緊圍繞巴赫穆特的絞索,這座位于烏克蘭東部的競爭激烈的城市不太可能成為這場長達(dá)一年的戰(zhàn)爭的焦點。
—Washington Times
The first case was in April 2016, when an employee at the Baton Rouge plant reported that a rope had been tied into a noose hanging from a scaffold.
第一個案例發(fā)生在 2016 年 4 月,當(dāng)時巴吞魯日工廠的一名員工報告說,一根繩子被綁在一個懸掛在腳手架上的套索上。
—New York Times
基本釋意:
noun
a loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot; it binds tighter as the cord or rope is pulled
n. 套索;束縛;絞刑
同義詞:
running noose,slip noose,gin,snare
短釋義:
無
長釋義:
無
文學(xué)例句:
They’re the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us.
他們是那些在競技場中幸存下來并擺脫了扼殺我們其他人的貧困絞索的人。
—Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
“I’m innocent!” the boy my age sobbed as they dragged him up onto the gallows and put the hangman’s noose around his neck.
“我是無辜的!”當(dāng)他們把他拖到絞刑架上并將劊子手的絞索套在他的脖子上時,我這個年紀(jì)的男孩抽泣起來。
—Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz
She lifted her upper body from the tunnel lip, spun the noose, and let the rope fly.
她從隧道邊緣抬起上半身,轉(zhuǎn)動絞索,讓繩子飛起來。
—Son by Lois Lowry
詞源:
noose?(n.)”loop formed by fastening a running knot or slip-knot,” mid-15c., perhaps from Old French nos or cognate Old Proven?al nous “knot,” from Latin nodus “knot” (from PIE root *ned- “to bind, tie”). Rare before c. 1600.Related entries & more
下面是詞源的翻譯(機(jī)器翻譯比較難翻,參考著看)
noose(n.)“通過固定一個連續(xù)的結(jié)或活結(jié)形成的環(huán)”,15 世紀(jì)中期,可能來自古法語 nos 或同源的古普羅旺斯 nous “結(jié)”,來自拉丁語 nodus “結(jié)”(來自 PIE 詞根 *ned – “綁定,綁定”)。在 c 之前很少見。 1600.相關(guān)條目及更多