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词汇 nobbling
释义 nobbling
present participle ofnobble
nobble
verb[ T ]
UKslanguk /ˈnɒb.əl/ us /ˈnɑː.əl/

nobbleverb[T] (CAUSE TO FAIL)


to make something fail, especially to make a horse in a race fail by giving it drugs(尤指给赛马服用药物)使不能获胜
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Horse racing
Arab
Arabian
campaign
claimer
claiming race
dark horse
hurdle
jockey
race meeting
racecourse
racetrack
ringer
runners and ridersidiom
sloppy
stable
stakes race
starter
tote board
triple crown
wire

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Failing and doing badly

nobbleverb[T] (PERSUADE)


to persuade someone to do what you want them to do, especially by using money or threats: 说服;(尤指)收买,要挟
The jury who convicted him were suspected of being nobbled.判他有罪的陪审团疑为被人收买。
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Fraud & corruption
anti-bribery
anti-corruption
anti-counterfeiting
anti-fraud
Augean
bribe
defalcation
defraud
defraud someone/something of something
dolus
embezzle
imposture
insider dealing
launder
malfeasance
malpractice
match-fixing
nobble
pyramid scheme
siphon

nobbleverb[T] (CATCH ATTENTION)


to intentionally catch the attention of someone so that you can talk to them: 故意引起(某人的)注意
He nobbled her in the corridor to sign the invoice.他在走廊上和她套近乎,哄她在付款通知上签字。
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Interrupting & preventing from speaking
accost
barge
belt up
blurt something out
break
break someone in
butt in
chime
horn in
interpolation
interrupt
interruption
mike check
nobble
not get a word in edgewaysidiom
put a sock in it!idiom
sock
speak
strike
waylay

Examples of nobbling


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Jury tampering and nobbling are rare in our system, because it is almost impossible to corrupt an entire jury.
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It is right that there should be retrials when jury nobbling occurs.
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That case related to an instance of jury nobbling where a complaint had been made by a member of the jury.
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There is no doubt about the horrifying threatening and nobbling of the jury although it could not be effectually proved.
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Then you get what may be called fake nobbling.
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They came to the conclusion he was nobbling the horse.
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Jury nobbling is made much easier when jurors themselves have a past criminal record.
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There is the confidence in the court system and the jury nobbling, not by paramilitary groupings but by the legal process itself.
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There has been some very thin evidence of nobbling of and getting at jurors.
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It is impossible to say how prevalent "nobbling" is.
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Secondly, we shall have done something marginal about interference with juries, or jury nobbling.
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I want to finish on the question of jury nobbling.
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The second reason is that there has grown up since 1974 a very dramatic increase in the amount of jury nobbling.
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A large part of the so-called "nobbling" can fall into that class.
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The administration of criminal justice has been under greater strain and there has been more jury nobbling.
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