| 词汇 | mousetrap |
| 释义 | mousetrap noun[ C ] uk /ˈmaʊs.træp/ us /ˈmaʊs.træp/ a small device that is used in houses and other buildings for catching and killing mice捕鼠器，捕鼠夹 KTSDESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GettyImages Hunting & fishing angler angling anti-hunt anti-hunter anti-hunting barb fishhook fishing line fishing rod fly fishing fox hunt overfishing piscatory poach poaching predation quarry ravening whaler yoicks mousetrap | American Dictionarymousetrap noun[ C ] us/ˈmɑʊsˌtræp/ a small device used for catching and usually killing mice Examples of mousetrapmousetrap Forty years of language teaching not creating communicatively proficient learners, a new mousetrap begged to be invented. You know, that business of building a better mousetrap, and the world comes to your door, no longer applies in art. Clearly, a wide range of devices and designs are capable of realizing the mousetrap role. Behe compares the blood clotting system to a household mousetrap, something we know to be a product of human design. The analogy of a mousetrap patent has been used. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She has feelings about dead mice, so she threw mouse and mousetrap into the dustbin. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is always somebody who has the best idea since the mousetrap. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People with no experience, who had never set an industrial mousetrap, made fortunes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My grand-daughter found a dead mouse in a mousetrap. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must sell more cars or more mousetraps to the world in order to exist. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 An open market, whether in mousetraps, mince pies, money or methodologies, encourages better ways of serving our diverse requirements and preferences. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I remember an old saying that, if you were setting up a committee to devise a better mousetrap, you would not compose it entirely of mice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some spring mousetraps have a plastic extended trip. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Various mousetraps have been developed to catch mice. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A torsion spring, similar to those used in mousetraps, allows the legs the tension to expand outward, assuming their locked position. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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