(figurative)His debts were a noose around his neck.
债务就像套在他脖子上的一条套索。
牛津词典
The rebels are tightening the noose around the capital...
叛乱分子正在收紧对首都的包围。
Too often women find their jobs turning into nooses around their neck.
女性常常感到工作成了一种束缚。
Sikes made a running noose, and called him again.
赛克斯打了个一勒就紧的套结, 又叫他一声.
辞典例句
Many a necklace becomes a noose.
一根又一根的(金)项链化成了圈套.
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Federal prosecutors say they are actively investigating several noose incidents for possible prosecution.
联邦检察官司们表示他们正积极的调查几起套索事件,并可能进行起诉.
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Federal prosecuters say they are actively investigating several news noose incidents for possible prosecution.
联邦检察官称他们正在积极调查几起套索事件,并可能起诉.
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Put one's head in a noose.
自套绞索.
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But I don't see why I should a noose to conceal his affair.
但我不明白我为什么要自讨苦吃,去帮他隐瞒他的风流韵事.
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Hussein was carrying a Koran and was compliant as the noose was draped around his neck.
见证人称行刑时,侯赛因手捧古兰经,绳索套入脖颈时,没有反抗.
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Ill put my head in a noose.
生病把我的头一缳.
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To capture or hold by or as if by a noose.
诱捕用或似乎用绳圈来捕或抓.
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How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose neck?
在脖子上套一个小小的纹索来开始新的一天,这有多聪明?
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Since the Jena case, there have been several other noose incidents across the country.
自该事件后, 全国又发生了好几起绞索事件.
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I put one boot on Father Donovan's chest and held the noose tight.
我一只脚踩在多诺万神父的胸上紧紧,手紧紧扯住勒在他脖子上的细线.
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They tied a noose round her neck.
他们在她脖子上系了一个活扣.
《简明英汉词典》
Be careful. Here's a noose.
小心! 这里有个陷阱.
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When you hang up a noose, that's no joke to us.
当你挂起套索, 这对我们来说不是一个玩笑.
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Sharpton explained why seeing a noose strikes such an emotional chord with African Americans.
夏普顿解释了为什么看到套索会引起美国黑人如此强烈的共鸣.
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Many a necklace become a noose.
一根又一根(金)项链化成了圈套.
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One day the boys snared a sparrow in instead of a rabbit with a noose.
有一天,男孩们用索套逮住了一只麻雀而不是野兔.
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I found a piece of rope, made a noose, slipped it about the kitten's neck.
我找来一根绳子,打了个扣, 顺手一撸套上了小猫的脖子.
辞典例句
While the otter is going about this task , the rabbit fashions a noose from tree bark.
趁着水獭抓鸭子的工夫, 兔子用树皮做了一个绳套.
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You asked us to say,'We have caught the sniper a duck a noose . '.
你们希望听到我们说:'我们抓获那个杀手就像抓住绳套里的鸭子一样.
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Although she has spent many nights in a dungeon, she has avoided the noose so far.
虽然她在地牢里度过了许多夜晚, 她还是远远的避开了绞架.
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They put him on the back of a horse and looped a noose around his neck.
他们把他放在马的背后并用套索缠绕住他的脖子.
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She throws him the noose to him instructions about how to use it.
她丢给他绳子,又好像在示范他该如何使用.
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A hangman's noose had already been placed around his neck.
一个绞刑的绳圈已经套在他的脖子上.
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He cut the rope then and went astern to noose the tail.
然后他割下一截绳子,走到船梢去套住鱼尾巴.
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