noose 英 [nu:s]   美 [nus]

noose

noose  英 [nu:s] 美 [nus]

n. 套索;束缚;绞刑  vt. 用套索捉;使落入圈套 

进行时:noosing  过去式:noosed  过去分词:noosed  第三人称单数:nooses  名词复数:nooses 

So finally I tied a couple of belts and jumped off the stairs, but my head slipped through the noose. 所以最后我把两根带子系在一起,跳下楼梯,不过我的头从套索中溜出去了。
Paying later for stuff we get today seems small, almost inconsequential early on –but becomes a noose that strangles as the years wear on. 在一开始,先买东西后付款看似数额很小、几乎无关紧要,但随着时间的推移,它却变成了束缚我们的枷锁。

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  • n. 套索;束缚;绞刑
  • vt. 用套索捉;使落入圈套
  • 1. So finally I tied a couple of belts and jumped off the stairs, but my head slipped through the noose.

    所以最后我把两根带子系在一起,跳下楼梯,不过我的头从套索中溜出去了。

  • 2. Paying later for stuff we get today seems small, almost inconsequential early on –but becomes a noose that strangles as the years wear on.

    在一开始,先买东西后付款看似数额很小、几乎无关紧要,但随着时间的推移,它却变成了束缚我们的枷锁。

  • 3. Luckily she had brought a rope with her, and making a noose at one end, she flung it across the chasm with all her might.

    幸运的是,她带了一根绳子。 在绳子一端做了一个套索,她使出吃奶的劲儿将套索扔向峡谷对面。

  • noose (n.) mid-15c., perhaps from Old French nos or cognate Old Provençal nous "knot," from Latin nodus "knot" (from PIE root *ned- "to bind, tie"). Rare before c. 1600.
noose / nuːs ; NAmE nuːs / noun 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 绳套;套索;活扣 a hangman's noose 绞索 ( figurative) His debts were a noose around his neck. 债务就像套在他脖子上的一条套索。 noose nooses noosed noosing noose / nuːs ; NAmE nuːs /
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