loophole
loophole 英 [ˈlu:phəʊl] 美 [ˈluphoʊl]
n. 漏洞；枪眼；换气孔；射弹孔
名词复数:loopholes
- A loophole is an accidental technicality or unclear section of a written document that allows someone to avoid following a rule or fulfilling an obligation. If you've discovered a way to get out of paying taxes on money you made last year, you've found a loophole.
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- n. 漏洞；枪眼；换气孔；射弹孔
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1. Each law has its loophole.
每部法律都有漏洞。
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2. The law applies to them, but with an exemption when economic or national security is threatened—a loophole almost as big as China itself.
新法将适用与这些企业，除非经济或者国家安全受到威胁——而这一法律上的漏洞简直和中国国土一样大。
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3. This legislation focuses on just the kind of special interest loophole that should be closed before we open attacks on programs for the poorest Americans.
在我们为最贫苦的美国人公开攻击那些提案前，立法关注的只是那种应该关闭的特殊利益漏洞。
- loophole (n.) also loop-hole, mid-15c., from hole (n.). + Middle English loupe "narrow window, slit-opening in a wall" for protection of archers while shooting, or for light and ventilation (c. 1300), which, along with Medieval Latin loupa, lobia probably is a specialized word from a continental Germanic source, such as Middle Dutch lupen "to watch, peer." Figurative sense of "outlet, means of escape" is from 1660s.
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