cage
n. 笼, 牢房, 战俘营 vt. 关进笼内
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教材释义与例句
笼,兽笼;牢房,监狱
a structure made of wires or bars in which birds or animals can be kept
把…关进笼子;把…囚禁起来
to put or keep an animal or bird in a cage
释义与例句
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1.
An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
笼子
笼
We keep a bird in a cage.
The tigers are in a cage to protect the public.
The most dangerous prisoners are locked away in a cage.
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2.
The passenger compartment of a lift.
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3.
The goal.
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An automobile.
美国 贬义 俚语 -
5.
Something that hinders freedom.
比喻 -
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A prison or prison cell.
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The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
体育 -
8.
An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
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A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
工程 -
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A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
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The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
商务 采矿 -
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The protective wire mask at the front of a helmet.
体育 游戏 -
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A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
数学 -
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In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.
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To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
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To imprison.
俚语 及物The serial killer was caged for life.
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To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
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To immobilize an artificial horizon.
航空 商务 工程To prevent damage to its gimbal mountings during extreme aerobatic maneuvers, the navball should be caged before the start of a display sequence.
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To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
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词源
From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail.
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