hooking [计] 挂钩
hooking[ noun ]
a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
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he took lessons to cure his hooking
Hook \Hook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hooked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Hooking}.]
1. To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize,
capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or
baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice;
to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.
Hook him, my poor dear, . . . at any sacrifice. --W.
Collins.
2. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle
in attacking enemies; to gore.
3. To steal. [Colloq. Eng. & U.S.]
{To hook on}, to fasten or attach by, or as by, hook.
- Running a wire from the utility pole and hooking it up cost 130,000 rupiahs, or $79.41.
- In 10 minutes, Wilbey Mullen was hooking Miser's car to his tow truck.
- After hooking up his invention to the scalps of many volunteers, Prof.
- Setting up a dedicated retail outlet in London this year will be a significant step in hooking more customers, Greenlees argues. 'The biggest growth area will be sales to the retail trade and our own shop will help with that.'
- It's just a matter of hooking up the juice," said Richard Fortuna of the Hazardous Waste Treatment Council, a Washington-based lobbying group for Rollins Environmental Services and other waste handlers whose prices were undercut.
- The way they sell product is hooking kids," adds Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California in San Francisco.
- Asked for suggestions, she replied, "I really don't know who is close right now." Mrs. Barry barely glanced up from her hooking until Moore took the stand last week.
- Bush complained jokingly that although Gorbachev had never thrown horseshoes before, he managed to score a "ringer" by hooking one on a metal stake on his first try.
- At the other end, Dino Baggio saved the day in extra time by hooking a Yekini poke off the line. Later, Yekini launched a bitter attack on Nigeria coach Clemens Westerhof, saying the defeat was due to his tactical folly.
- "I was hooking on, my hook slipped and I went off the back," Haid said after the accident.
- Many first-time anglers make the mistake of running the hook the length of the worm, or hooking the worm so many times it hangs in a glob.
- "I was hooking on, my hook slipped and I went off the back," said Haid, who was wearing a life preserver.
- At 11:59 p.m. Thursday, a technician punched a computer button at the fire-damaged Hinsdale switching station, hooking up half of Illinois Bell's 35,000 Hinsdale-area customers to a new digital switching system.
- An international sales force becomes critical, which is why Delaware-based DuPont pointed to Merck's vast international sales staff as one reason for hooking up with its New Jersey neighbor.
- Another was a student working her way through college, between classes, by stringing pearls and hooking earrings.
- The close-up is a simple picture of quiet relaxation _ a man wearing a U.S. Forest Service hat casts his line into the water in hopes of hooking a spring Chinook salmon.
- To them, hooking a trout can be like a religious experience, and their numbers are growing along with their passion.