| 词汇 | cage |
| 释义 | cage noun[ C ] uk /keɪdʒ/ us /keɪdʒ/ B1 a space surrounded on all sides by bars or wire, in which animals or birds are kept笼子 jgroup/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages a space surrounded by wire or a net on three sides, which is used by baseball players to practise hitting the ball: She practised for hours in a cage. My father set up a cage for me in our back garden. Synonym batting cage A lion has escaped from its cage.一头狮子逃出了兽笼。 Using a bunch of bananas, the zoo-keeper persuaded the monkey back into its cage.动物园管理员用一串香蕉诱使猴子回到了笼子里。 The gorilla rattled the bars of its cage.大猩猩把笼子的铁栅栏弄得吱嘎吱嘎响。 Bored out of its mind, the monkey stares out of the cage with unseeing eyes.那些百无聊赖的猴子从笼子里向外心不在焉地看着。 The monkeys bunched together in their cage.猴子在笼中挤成一团。 Animal dwellings - man-made animal shelter apiary aquarium aviary bee house bird box doghouse dovecote fish tank fishbowl goldfish bowl hive pigsty rabbit hutch rescue rescue centre sanctuary skep stall sty You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Baseball & rounders cage verb[ Tusually passive ] uk /keɪdʒ/ us /keɪdʒ/ to put or keep birds or animals in a cage: （把鸟或动物）关进笼子里 caged birds/animals笼中鸟／兽 Sam's been prowling about like a caged animal all morning.萨姆一上午都像困兽一样走来走去。 Capturing or taking possession of things -grabbing apprehend apprehension arrogate at bayidiom captor capture catch clutch collar grab grabber grasp at something intercept recover sequester sequestration snag snatch snatch at something cage | American Dictionarycage noun[ C ] us/keɪdʒ/ a structure shaped like a box but with bars or wires as its sides, for keeping pets or for housing animals: The lab was stocked with wire cages for mice. Examples of cagecage He removed the birds from their cages before they were humanely culled. The water depth at the location was 1.5 metres and the distance between the cages was 10 metres. At this time they were divided into separate cages according to genetic line and were immediately inoculated orally. The chickens were in 2.5 m2 ground cages on litter. Collections from trap cages were at 30 min intervals. To determine the actual fertility, for several seasons newly moulted males and females were kept until their death in outside wire cages. The humidity was not appreciably higher in the cages with wet sand. Hybridization can be forced in the laboratory by caging males of one species with females of the other. Each pair was caged on a potted eggplant, as described above. Salts were placed in a container (10 cm widthr10 cm diameterr15 cm height) at the base of the cages. The flies were five days old and had been starved for 24 h before the gels were introduced in to the cages. Emerged parasitoids were provided with water and spun honey in cages (25 x 25 x 25 cm). Several cages were designated for breeding colonies and contained females and males. Two cages (one group) were observed simultaneously for 1 h after introduction of prey from behind a one-way mirror. Mature females were more flight willing when kept as adults in mixed groups with males than when caged separately. See all examples of cage 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. Collocations withcagecageThese are words often used in combination with cage. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. battery cage We aim to phase out the conventional battery cage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 batting cage Home team facilities include a weight room and training area for each team, an indoor battingcage, storage areas, and a laundry room. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. cage match Hairs steel cage match and were all shaved bald. 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. See all collocations with cage |
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