trap的意思|trap的解释-里氏词典

Trap \Trap\, a.
Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.

Trap \Trap\, n. [OE. trappe, AS. treppe; akin to OD. trappe,
OHG. trapo; probably fr. the root of E. tramp, as that which
is trod upon: cf. F. trappe, which is trod upon: cf. F.
trappe, which perhaps influenced the English word.]
1. A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a
spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap
for foxes.

She would weep if that she saw a mouse
Caught in a trap. --Chaucer.

2. Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which
one may be caught unawares.

Let their table be made a snare and a trap. --Rom.
xi. 9.

God and your majesty
Protect mine innocence, or I fall into
The trap is laid for me! --Shak.

3. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in
the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one
end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air
by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing
into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot
at.

4. The game of trapball.

5. A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil
pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents
form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but
permits the flow of liquids.

6. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates
for want of an outlet.

7. A wagon, or other vehicle. [Colloq.] --Thackeray.

8. A kind of movable stepladder. --Knight.

{Trap stairs}, a staircase leading to a trapdoor.

{Trap tree} (Bot.) the jack; -- so called because it
furnishes a kind of birdlime. See 1st {Jack}.

Trap \Trap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trapped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Trapping}.] [Akin to OE. trappe trappings, and perhaps from
an Old French word of the same origin as E. drab a kind of
cloth.]
To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of
horses.

Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering.
--Chaucer.

To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed.
--Spenser.

There she found her palfrey trapped
In purple blazoned with armorial gold. --Tennyson.

Trap \Trap\, n. [Sw. trapp; akin to trappa stairs, Dan. trappe,
G. treppe, D. trap; -- so called because the rocks of this
class often occur in large, tabular masses, rising above one
another, like steps. See {Tramp}.] (Geol.)
An old term rather loosely used to designate various
dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the
feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid,
etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also
{trap rock}.

{Trap tufa}, {Trap tuff}, a kind of fragmental rock made up
of fragments and earthy materials from trap rocks.

Trap \Trap\, v. t. [AS. treppan. See {Trap} a snare.]
1. To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.

2. Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap. ``I
trapped the foe.'' --Dryden.

3. To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a
sewer pipe. See 4th {Trap}, 5.

Trap \Trap\, v. i.
To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game;
as, to trap for beaver.

"They're a big trap," says Laura Freid, publisher and editor-in-chief of Bostonian magazine.
Sources told ABC that Bloch claimed he spied because he fell into a Soviet sex trap but that investigators have discounted the story.
But he cautions that any snapback will be a "bear trap."
Two French soldiers were killed and 10 wounded, however, as they took As Salman, apparently the victims of a booby trap, mine or unexploded bomb.
'We must not fall into the trap of designing products with features people don't need.
Bush set the trap himself.
Forget the tender trap, I thought.
A full-page ad in this month's Spy magazine contains photographs of a trapper approaching a fox whose leg is caught in a trap, then standing on the animal and suffocating him.
However, the experts found there is potential later in the year for weather inversions, in which stagnant air masses can trap pollution near the ground for extended times and increase its harmful health effects.
Temperature inversions may trap ozone near the ground and keep it from dispersing.
Burning oil and gas releases carbon dioxide, which tends to trap solar heat in the earth's atmosphere.
Banks can otherwise fall into the trap of over-estimating returns on capital. One form of risk is credit.
The Kroller-Muller thieves demanded an undisclosed ransom, but the Van Goghs were recovered after police set up a trap.
Or it may just have set a trap for Democrats.
Global warming, otherwise known as the greenhouse effect, occurs as rising levels of carbon dioxide and other pollutants trap the sun's heat in the atmosphere.
The proposed treaty, which is purported to make secession possible, is really a trap in that it sets obstacles in the way of secession; the only way to escape the trap is not to sign the treaty at all.
The proposed treaty, which is purported to make secession possible, is really a trap in that it sets obstacles in the way of secession; the only way to escape the trap is not to sign the treaty at all.
Glosser said four interconnected trap lines have been completed in South Texas to capture and track swarms as they move north out of Mexico.
And questions continue about why I-880 crumbled and why a section of the Bay Bridge fell like a trap door.
Relatively high real interest rates and typically moderate EU growth rates offer no escape from the debt trap. No-one is shedding tears for Greece, the EU's economic delinquent.
'This situation is a trap.
The painstaking work is in measuring out the distances between the various components of the trap, and then in camouflaging it properly.
Environmentalists say the huge nets trap virtually everything they cover and could decimate marine life.
Mr Clarke's most important task is to show that he knows how to avoid this trap.
A Palestinian state, he said, "would be a trap.
It could be the grease trap.
An Irish Republican Army bomb exploded by mistake Wednesday in an apartment booby trap set for British soldiers, killing an elderly man and a woman.
But he seems to have fallen into the same trap as many governments, which think washing their hands of the problem - by reducing state provision - will mean it goes away.
In the greater Stockholm area, an estimated 22 per cent of owners - broadly, those who bought between 1987 and 1992 - are believed to be caught in this trap. In 1991, the figure was just 2 per cent.
So how can Taiwan escape this trap?

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