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Definition of hook in English: hooknoun hʊkhʊk 1A piece of metal or other hard material curved or bent back at an angle, for catching hold of or hanging things on. 钩子，吊钩，挂钩 一个画钩。 Example sentencesExamples - Here, workers grab birds by their feet and sling them on to fast-moving metal hooks.
- We talked about the problems his father had encountered when he first lost his arm, with doctors in the UK telling him the best they could offer was a metal hook.
- At Axelle Fine Arts, the gallery uses a hanging system that consists of two hooks and wire.
- Those who have left keys dangling on hooks near the front door have learned the hard way.
- My mother was a nut for hanging plants, so there was always one pot of greenery or another hanging from the ceiling on a hook.
- For hanging coat hooks, tightening door hinges and replacing washers in the toilet-tank float valve you'll need a set of screwdrivers.
- Toni shut the door, and I grabbed the towel off the hook by the sink.
- An easy way to alter the look of your room is to update details like drawer pulls, towel bars, shower controls, robe hooks and soap holders.
- The film gives us a sense of symmetry when, at the end, we see that upstairs hallway dotted with picture hooks - all but one of the photographs are gone.
- There was a hook where a picture once hung, with horrid marks where the picture had been.
- A small coat hook protruded from the wall to his left.
- If only I can locate it - that's proving harder to find than the adhesive plastic hooks.
- This may seem strange at first, but think about your own home and how much the need for redecoration would become apparent once you started taking pictures and hooks off walls or moving out sofas, bookcases and beds.
- Objects with a wide variety of weight can be supported by a metal hook on a long tapered nail driven at an angle into the plaster.
- My grandpa had the most impressive collection of picture hooks and picture hanging implements that I have ever seen.
- There was a wonderful ice-cold larder with big hooks for hanging game.
- They once hung my little brother by the tag of his coat to metal hooks along the bus interior; which isn't to say he didn't somehow deserve it.
- This should be as neat and clean as the interior of the house, windows gleaming and tools hung neatly on hooks on the wall.
- I draped his coat on an empty hook and walked into the kitchen.
- I also need a hammer and nails, picture hooks and the step ladder.
- Earlier in the trial, a fire investigation officer told the court the fire spread rapidly through the flat as it took hold of clothing hanging on hooks behind a door where it started.
- They sometimes used electricity, but often simply tied men's arms behind their backs and then suspended them from the wrists from large metal hooks welded to a pipe across the ceiling.
- She looked at her shoulder and saw that her laced up dress was caught on a hook.
- Nearby on the floor sat her knitting basket, from which she leaned over and pulled a crochet hook and a ball of gold-colored yarn from.
Synonyms peg, holder fastener, fastening, catch, clasp, hasp, clip, pin, buckle, hook and eye Archaeology fibula - 1.1 A bent piece of metal, typically barbed and baited, for catching fish.
（多指带倒刺和鱼饵的）鱼钩 Example sentencesExamples - Aaron took a seat next to his brother and baited his hook.
- Eddie, although blind, fillets his own mackerel, and baits his own hooks.
- Try different baits on each of the hooks, it will soon become evident what the fish prefer.
- Whether you're bait fishing or fly fishing don't think of using hooks less than size 6 or 8.
- The line is what connects your pole to the hook and the bait.
- Large sea fish were caught in nets which floated below the surface of the sea and others were caught with hooks and lines.
- ‘Once you learn how to tie your own lures and bait your own hook, you can go anyplace,’ Oyler says.
- He took out a vicious-looking fish hook from behind his back.
- Albatrosses fall prey to longlines, baited hooks stretched for miles across the oceans by commercial fishing fleets.
- They have delicate mouthparts, so it's really unkind to use barbed hooks on the poor things.
- Ben had tried to show her how to bait a hook earlier, but Inger felt too much sympathy for the poor worms to skewer them successfully.
- After baiting the hook, you lower the line into the water and wait for the fish to bite while you watch TV or play cards.
- Once the boat had settled we shipped the oars, got out our lines, baited the hooks and dropped them over the gunwale.
- It is now time to secure the hook to the end of the line, and attach the bait to the hook.
- She baited her hook with a few worms and they spent most of the morning fishing.
- Two men are sitting on the jetty, fixing bait to hooks and casting fishing-lines out into the water, chatting quietly in Spanish and sipping from bottles of pop.
- The 46-year old captain was stabbed several times in the chest and head with a fish hook, the Star said.
- A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a boat, a 4x4 truck and a tent?
- Their rods and lines are too heavy, their hooks and baits too large.
- I was mortified to find that I didn't remember how to bait a hook.
Synonyms fish hook, barb, snare, trap
2A thing designed to catch people's attention. 〈喻〉吸引人之物，噱头 companies are looking for a sales hook 公司在寻找卖点。 Example sentencesExamples - The hook that caught him was the girl's attitude.
- A good trailer is a hook, designed to leave you irresistibly compelled to come back one more time.
- Throughout all the books, the poems become the hook for students to listen more closely to the mood and images created by Kelsey.
- There are many people who take the human capacity for faith and use it as a hook, a tool with which to harm others.
- They only added that feature a few months ago, and have suddenly decided that's their hook to get attention.
- One of the great things about blogging is that you don't need a news hook; you can write about whatever catches your eye.
- It is the hook that gets attention and influences the purchase decision.
- 2.1 A catchy chorus or repeated instrumental passage in a piece of popular music.
strong, funky vocals with a hook that gets into your head Example sentencesExamples - Given the lack of catchy hooks, however, it's clear that they still have a thing or two to learn about songwriting.
- The label immediately seized upon their talent for blending edgy, high-pitched vocals with catchy guitar hooks, as epitomised by Float On.
- Songs don't matter, it's all about hooks, choruses, catchy tunes.
- This is good middle of the road music - there aren't any ambitious highs, but no horrible lows either - just a few Canadian boys and their catchy, happy hooks.
- Sporting a big beat sound with catchy hooks isn't enough nowadays.
- They were never the most groundbreaking band on the planet, but their catchy hooks and honest energy made them a lovable presence in the indie scene of my youth.
- After three strong tracks there's a run of tunes that simply lack any hooks or strong choruses.
- And of course, there are no big choruses or infectious hooks to get you humming along.
- Oddly enough, the album finds a reinvigorated Bolan crafting some of his best hooks and calibrating his catchiest grooves in years.
- One thing this album could use is more catchy hooks and distinctive melodies though.
- Most of the songs feature solemn, at times almost whispered, vocals, with several songs employing haunting, catchy hooks.
- There are no hooks, choruses and sometimes little in the way of melody, but it's an example of an album that I could imagine anyone enjoying.
- But underneath lie a collection of catchy melodies and hooks evoking in turns the Beach Boys, Beck or early seventies avant-pop.
- The true highlight of this song is the vocal hook of the chorus, a classic.
- The tunes are great, and the hooks are catchy, and that's all we're asking for these days.
- The foot-tapping Hamoa Beach, meanwhile, is simply a great listen, featuring some more tremendous hooks and another catchy chorus.
- He certainly is an amazing pop songwriter, dropping catchy hooks and tasteful riffs left and right.
- As Lipstick Traces demonstrates, even the band's B-sides feature catchy hooks, witty lyrics and solid rock song structures and dynamics.
- It is quickly followed by another acoustic gem, No Goodbyes, which contains some beautiful melodies and genuinely catchy hooks.
- This is where she is at her best, with simple song structure and deft musical hooks reeling in the listener.
3A curved cutting instrument, especially as used for reaping or shearing. （尤指用于收割、剪羊毛）弧形切割工具 Example sentencesExamples - In summer for the wheat harvest, everybody was given a reaping hook to work in the fields.
- He arranged two lines of men with flails, clubs, pitchforks, sickles, and reaping hooks.
- The gang attacked him in the doorway of the hotel where he was working, armed with slash hooks and hammers after hearing his English accent.
4A short swinging punch made with the elbow bent and rigid, especially in boxing. （尤指拳击中）钩拳 a perfectly timed right hook to the chin 非常适时的击中下巴的右钩拳。 Example sentencesExamples - Mike's favorite punch is the right hook and my favorite punch is his left hook, so we disagree in what his best shot is.
- Then I followed it up with a right hook that caught him in the ribs.
- Cintron's hooks, uppercuts, and overhand rights dictated the fight and the win.
- By the end of the round Ellis is pinned against the ropes and Frazier is landing body shots and short hooks to the head.
- Foster possessed one of the most powerful punches ever seen on a light heavyweight, his left hook.
- Round 14 is literally about the logistics of countering a hook with an uppercut.
- Pendleton went down face first from the short left hook behind his elbow and had no chance of meeting the count.
- In a pulsating third round Mick finally began to impose his will and power, and with some excellent uppercuts and hooks forced the referee to administer two standing eight counts to Hodson.
- Ryan threw a right hook, catching the bully in the jaw.
- He was catching Klitschko with upper cuts and hooks.
- He had a good long hard jab, his left hook and left uppercut were devastating punches.
- I had chances to throw the left hook, my best punch, but I couldn't get my shoulder up.
- Norton began to score with left hooks and overhand rights.
- She responds with a right hook and catches him off guard.
- Barry charged out of his corner and continued to rake Steve with left hooks to the body but the punches were becoming noticeably slower.
- Martin continues to press and throw hooks to the body.
- In the process he was caught by a left hook which left him entangled on the ropes.
- A left hook from British Boxer Henry Cooper floored Cassius Clay at Wembley in 1963.
- In the fourth round Quarry stunned Orbillo with a counter hook off the ropes.
- Expect a large assortment of straights, jabs, uppercuts, hooks, and more.
Synonyms punch, blow, hit, box, cuff, thump, smack, crack, knock, thwack Scottish & Northern English skelp informal belt, bop, biff, sock, clout, whack, wallop, plug, slug, whop British informal slosh, dot North American informal boff Australian/New Zealand informal dong - 4.1Cricket A stroke made to the on side with a horizontal or slightly upward swing of the bat at shoulder height.
〔板球〕左曲球 Example sentencesExamples - He is strong off the back, utilising hooks and cuts to great effect.
- Runs started to flow as Jaques top-edged a hook at Harris for six and drove him for four through extra cover.
- First Flintoff continues his Botham impression with another hook for six, then guides one down to the vacant third-man boundary, and lastly lets fly square of the wicket.
- Furlong's two sixes came in the same Yovich over, an effortless flick of the pads followed by a hook to the longest boundary.
- 4.2Golf A stroke that makes the ball deviate in flight in the direction of the follow-through (from right to left for a right-handed player), typically inadvertently.
〔高尔夫〕（多指无意中的）曲线球（使用右手的选手从右边击到左边） Compare with slice Example sentencesExamples - The wind heightens any spin on the ball, and accentuates a slice or a hook.
- Nobody has trouble putting sidespin on the ball - that's what produces hooks and slices.
- An important point to remember is that orienting a shaft in a way that might correct a hook or a slice remains an infraction of the rules.
- I hit a few hooks, slices, low shots and high fades.
- Too often players subconsciously misalign their shoulders to compensate for their usual hook or slice.
5A curved stroke in handwriting. Example sentencesExamples - Kurtz notes, ‘The small hooks at the end of the "t" and the "i" indicate a writer who is tenacious, holds on to beliefs, doctrines, ideals.’
- Place the pen on the paper, pull up then straight down, then make a small hook.
- 5.1Music An added stroke transverse to the stem in the symbol for a quaver or other note.
〔乐〕符尾 Example sentencesExamples - Any note shorter than a quarter note has one or more hooks to indicate its length.
6usually in place names A curved promontory or sand spit. 弧形岬（或沙嘴） Example sentencesExamples - The United States owned the entire promontory of Sandy Hook.
verb hʊkhʊk 1with object and adverbial Attach or fasten with a hook or hooks. （用钩子）钩住（或固定住） the truck had a red lamp hooked to its tailgate 卡车有盏红灯用钩子挂在后挡板上。 she tried to hook up her bra 她试图把胸罩扣上。 no object a ladder that hooks over the roof ridge 挂在屋脊上的梯子。 Example sentencesExamples - Pirates hooked a metal ladder to the 58m boat and climbed aboard.
- An older man farther along the edge of the water hooks the suitcase with his umbrella-handle, brings it ashore, leaves it there, and moves on.
- She had just finished hooking the last clasp when Loretta turned to her holding up a delicate silver chain and smiling triumphantly.
- Michelle carefully hooked the clasp and turned Dylan to face her.
- Now imagine if the bottom of the ladder slips slightly while the top is hooked over a branch.
- One interesting solution is to hook your thumb drive to a neck strap to make a necklace, or a key chain, That way, you will never leave home without it.
- Metal ladder brackets allow you to hook a ladder over the ridge of a house.
- He fires a grappling hook that hooks itself onto the balustrade of the rooftop garden.
Synonyms attach, fix, hitch, fasten, secure, clasp archaic hasp, grapple - 1.1 Bend into the shape of a hook so as to fasten around or to an object.
（弯成钩子的形状）钩在，钩住 with object he hooked his thumbs in his belt 他把大拇指钩拉在腰带上。 she hooked a thread around her crochet hook no object her legs hooked around mine 她的腿钩住了我的。 Example sentencesExamples - York and Coll hooked arms to support the woman, Clark recalled.
- I hooked my thumbs around the front belt loops of my jeans.
- The announcement doesn't seem to faze Jonathan Leidich, our guide, who hooks his thumbs in his pack straps and beams.
- He moved back a bit and hooked her legs through his arms.
- Isabella hooked her arm through mine and dragged me in.
- Gliding up to me in smooth strides, he hooked his arm with mine, attempting a British accent.
- I hooked his arm in mine and laid my head on his shoulder.
- I hooked my thumbs through my belt loops and observed the class.
- He hooked his arm in mine and slowly led me to the dining room.
- I hooked my arm through his and willed myself not to laugh for the next five minutes.
- In the end he had to swing himself up, hanging upside-down for a moment before he hooked his legs over the branch and drew himself up.
- ‘Nick'll protect me,’ said Sarah quickly, hooking her arm around Nick's.
- I shrugged, hooked Danielle's arm through mine, and followed Ryan.
- Then I noticed that he had slipped his arm through mine, hooking our elbows together.
- She hooked her arm in mine and we practically ran to a private secluded area.
- Dropping down a few branches, I hooked my legs over a branch and hung upside down, the way I did when I was a kid.
- Lithe as a monkey, he climbed across a tree branch, and hooked his legs over the branch, hanging upside down and swinging back and forth.
- In case you were wondering, you hook your arms through the straps of another jumper's parachute.
- But he moved with a confident stride, hooking his thumbs through the belt loops of his pants, and keeping his head high.
- She blushed and wagged her finger as if admonishing a small terrier, then hooked her arm in mine and steered me towards the pub.
Synonyms curl, bend, crook, loop, angle, curve
2with object Catch with a hook. （用钩子）钩住，挂住 他钓起了一条24磅重的狗鱼。 Example sentencesExamples - But once several fish have been hooked you can see the difference in all the carp in that water.
- From then on we started hooking single dorados for about an hour, but we realised that there were plenty around, because every time we hooked one we saw lots of others following it.
- He said that I had been playing the fish for over 10 minutes and to take my time as I had obviously hooked a very big one.
- Half an hour before dusk, I hooked a big fish that wouldn't move off the bottom.
- At one point I was hooking fish and dragging them over the back of an alligator.
- Once the fish is hooked and the line comes tight the pollack will turn and dive for the nearest cover.
- Try hooking a 20 lb carp in 12 inches of water and see the explosion.
- I managed to get a few takes, but only hooked one fish which shook the hook before I landed it.
- That's perhaps not a typical example, because hooking a giant trevally is akin to sticking a fly into the mouth of a Hereford bull.
- I'd been in the water for around twenty minutes (and I was told that this was a surprisingly slow day) when I hooked my first New Zealand rainbow.
- Coastal fishermen should not be nearly so amazed when they hook giants.
- I have been experimenting with small circle hooks for the last couple of seasons and truly believe that they are better at hooking plaice than conventional hooks.
- You stand every chance of hooking an 8lb plus fish doing this, especially off Inner and Outer Head (marked on an O/S map).
- And so the old man, alone, ventures out into the Gulf Stream where he hooks the largest marlin ever seen.
- It is a sad state of affairs when anglers board a charter boat and you know before they hook their first fish that they are going to have a problem with landing fish.
- During the late afternoon I hooked a fish on my lighter rod, a fish which actually put up a bit of resistance.
- I saw enough though to realise that future anglers visiting this amazing place are going to hook some monster fish.
- Nine out of ten fish are hooked in the front of their mouth making their release very quick and simple.
- Beware though: hooking the prize catch is one thing, securing it in your keepnet another.
- I went for another half an hour before hooking my third rainbow making me the only angler to land three fish.
- Proud of a nice catch, Myrtle McDonald hooked this fish in the Chapman River.
Synonyms catch, take, land, net, bag, snare, ensnare, trap, entrap - 2.1informal Attract and hold the attention of; captivate.
I was hooked by John's radical zeal 我被约翰的狂热吸引住了。 Example sentencesExamples - Well, this was just the introduction with which he hooked children and got them listening in rapt attention to his lecture.
- But reading soap previews, those little nuggets meant either to catch you up or hook you in, are very entertaining.
- If it continued to hook her attention she would hold onto it.
- If they can capture our attention now, they have hooked us for future years and we are far more likely to buy from their site advertisers.
- What was it about that cheetah that hooked his attention so?
- One inconsequential little jamless doughnut sets in chain a ripple of growing anger that hooks the attention of our entire nation.
- Your first task is to grab attention with a good catchy opening - hook your audience with a bait.
- A small crowd was gathering around them already, the onlookers' attention hooked with the hype of a fight breaking out.
- The teachers needed a selection of books that would catch the reluctant readers' attention and hook them on reading.
- 2.2archaic, informal Steal.
〈古，非正式〉偷窃 a maid hooked one of her mistress's dresses Synonyms purloin, thieve, take, take for oneself, help oneself to, loot, pilfer, abscond with, run off with, appropriate, abstract, carry off, shoplift
3Cricket
with object Hit (the ball) round to the on side with a horizontal or slightly upward swing of the bat at shoulder height; hit a ball delivered by (the bowler) with such a stroke. 〔板球〕左曲球 Example sentencesExamples - As Zoysa dropped short, Mongia hooked him imperiously for six to hoist India's 50.
- Kallis was hit on the right elbow after attempting to hook a short pitched delivery from West Indies opening bowler Fidel Edwards.
- When he hooks a ball over square-leg it is with the cheek associated with schoolboys.
- Undaunted, the admirable Michael Vaughan hooked a rare Glenn McGrath no-ball for six.
- In the same over that he brought up his fifty, he hooked the last ball to the square-leg boundary, where its sheer vigour caused Chris Adams to palm a fairly easy catch over the boundary for six.
- 3.1Golf Strike (the ball) so that it deviates in the direction of the follow-through, typically inadvertently.
〔高尔夫〕（多指无意中的）曲线球（使用右手的选手从右边击到左边） Example sentencesExamples - ‘As long as he doesn't try to hook the ball, he's going to be all right,’ says Smith.
- If he didn't correct that position on the way down, he would hook the ball.
- To draw or hook a golf ball, you must have fast hands.
- He shouldn't overdo it, though: The flatter the backswing, the easier it is to hook the ball.
- If you're slicing or hooking the ball, the divot hole can point the way to a cure.
- 3.2Boxing no object Punch one's opponent with the elbow bent and rigid.
〔拳击〕用钩拳击打 McKenzie switched his attack downstairs, hooking to the ribs Example sentencesExamples - From round 3 on, it was all Shields as he would hook, and uppercut his way to victory.
4Rugby
with object Secure (the ball) and pass it backwards with the foot in the scrum. 〔英橄〕（并列争球时用脚）往后钩传 Example sentencesExamples - This is done by hooking the ball with the soft swinging motion of one of the feet as the teams 8-man scrum pack pushes forward to give the hooker more room to hook the ball.
- You can only hook the ball back with your feet.
- At this point, the hookers both attempt to hook the ball back to their teammates.
5often in imperative hook itBritish dated, informal Run away. 〈英，非正式，旧〉逃走，逃离 kindly hook it—I just want you to scram Example sentencesExamples - ‘When you gave me the shilling,’ cried Dan, ‘he followed me into the yard, and told me to hook it.’
- After we had been on the bridge a bit, we got shooed off by a benevolent old retainer who said "Now you've had a nice look now!" and explained the boss would be down in a bit, so we'd better hook it. So we did.
- She began to, but I can't stand women when they cry, so I said she'd better hook it.
Synonyms withdraw, retire, draw back, pull back, pull out, fall back, give way, give ground, recoil, flee, take flight, beat a retreat, beat a hasty retreat, run away, run off, make a run for it, run for it, make off, take off, take to one's heels, make a break for it, bolt, make a quick exit, clear out, make one's getaway, escape, head for the hills 6usually as noun hookinginformal no object (of a woman) work as a prostitute. 〈非正式〉（妇女）当妓女，卖淫
PhrasesBy any possible means. 千方百计 the government intends, by hook or by crook, to hold on to the land 政府打算千方百计地保留那块地。 Example sentencesExamples - The present set of officials, according to Rover, want to be elected by hook or by crook.
- I made a mental note to try and procure some guest passes by hook or by crook.
- It doesn't matter what we think, say the focus groups, the political elite wants to join the euro and, by hook or by crook, it will force us into membership.
- Sometimes, it takes years and years to finally get it done, but by never backing down, by never giving up, they get these films to the screen by hook or by crook.
- Reality has to be kept at a distance by hook or by crook.
- Their only concern is to win the match by hook or by crook and be in line to enter the final round.
- A driving-school trainer said that people want a licence by hook or by crook, without mastering the basics of driving a vehicle.
- Every Friday, by hook or by crook, I was in front of the TV set.
- Parents are compelled to make money by hook or by crook for the ‘safe’ future of their children.
- I have told them I will replace everything by hook or by crook.
Synonyms by any means, by any means whatsoever, somehow, somehow or other, no matter how, in one way or another, by fair means or foul
informal Get hold of. 〈非正式〉抓住，得到；控制 they were going to move out rather than let Mel get his hooks into them 他们打算搬出去而不是让梅尔控制他们。 Example sentencesExamples - When she couldn't get her hooks into Alan, she went after your brother.
- I feel no compulsion to call some long-term, live-in partner my husband, provided I can still get my hooks into his pension if he suddenly meets a mysterious end while I'm across town in a crowded bar, as several witnesses would attest.
- Wait till they get their hooks into your pension funds!
- It's hard not to see house number three and think ‘We must buy this now before a crusty investor gets their hooks into it!’
- The implication is that a woman's sole goal in life is to ‘get her hooks into’ a man.
- Horton, meanwhile, is in his own tizzy, terrified that gold-digging dames will get their hooks into Fred.
- It is something that you can get your hooks into.
- The only regret is not having got my hooks into this fascinating collection sooner, considering it was first published in 1995.
- And once he got his hooks into you, he made your life hell by hanging round outside your house until you threw things at him.
- His unlikely plot machinations take some swallowing, but his characters truly get their hooks into you.
get (or give someone) the hook informal Be dismissed (or dismiss someone) from a job. 〈北美，非正式〉被解雇（或解雇某人） he got the hook, reportedly due to differences with his co-star Example sentencesExamples - But at issue before he got the hook was his performance, not his work ethic, professionalism or effort.
- The crowd loved it, but the soundman gave us the hook after only 15 minutes.
- He continued his late-season struggles into the playoffs, getting the hook in Game 2 after surrendering three goals in the first 15 minutes.
- He is aware that scientist and physician founders often get the hook if their management skills don't equal their research feats.
- The PM, all the while insisting the minister hadn't done anything wrong, gave him the hook.
- A rotund young woman made her entry one amateur night in Connecticut - and got the hook even before she stepped onstage.
- It was the day after I got the hook and I wasn't used to it.
- She was the cause of all my boyfriends giving me the hook because after they saw her, they could never be fully in love with me.
Used to emphasize that someone has been completely deceived or tricked. 完全地，彻底地（强调被完全欺骗或愚弄） he fell hook, line, and sinker for this year's April Fool joke 在今年的愚人节他成了十足的受愚弄对象。 Example sentencesExamples - But that doesn't mean some 18-year-old kid isn't going to take it hook, line, and sinker and try to top it.
- I think that she fell prey to someone much more powerful and more cunning than she was and believed everything he said hook, line, and sinker, and she's a victim of crime, the way I see it.
- Of course, most who read this tripe have zero knowledge of firearms and swallow it hook, line, and sinker which is the goal.
- I expected them to laugh it off as yet another hoax, but was surprised when the former hoaxers bought into my doctored photo hook, line, and sinker.
- What is a good deal more disturbing is that U.S. and international media outlets consistently swallowed the opposition's unlikely claims of certain victory hook, line, and sinker.
- If that is true, then they took the bait, hook, line, and sinker.
- He had them falling for it; hook, line, and sinker.
- Someone at the newspaper swallowed the fake memo hook, line, and sinker.
- Of course, the media swallowed it - as they always do - hook, line, and sinker.
- Mr Peters has fallen for that, hook, line, and sinker.
Synonyms completely, totally, utterly, entirely, absolutely, thoroughly, wholly, through and through, one hundred per cent, lock, stock, and barrel
1No longer in difficulty or trouble. 〈非正式〉摆脱困境（或麻烦） I lied to get him off the hook 为了让他摆脱麻烦我撒了谎。 Example sentencesExamples - I didn't have a chance to submit my questions to you in advance so I'm going to let you off the hook.
- Unfortunately, such action, welcome though it will be, is unlikely to get the Chancellor off the hook that easily.
- They often use the paperwork loophole to get themselves off the hook.
- You didn't think I was letting her off the hook that easily, did you?
- I don't think he's off the hook at all, because either he was misled or he deliberately lied.
- Some criticise this as letting property owners off the hook.
- Even America, which is the leader of the democratic world, does not let corrupt directors get off the hook.
- Only when the mom told the judge that her mother had stayed with them in their hotel room was she off the hook.
- She let him off the hook since that also meant letting herself off the hook.
- Alexander has no truck with the view that pushing the voluntary sector into the forefront of social change is letting the state off the hook.
Synonyms out of trouble, free, in the clear, under no obligation 2(of a telephone receiver) not on its rest, and so preventing incoming calls. （电话听筒）没挂上（以至于电话无法打入） Example sentencesExamples - The phone was still off the hook - his sister had touched nothing, as though this were his last fragile sandcastle.
- She prefers to leave the phone off the hook because it was the telephone that brought the fateful news.
- Whilst he was clearing up the mess, he noticed the phone was off the hook.
- When the maid found her body, she noticed the telephone was off the hook.
- He took the telephone off the hook, placed cushions on the floor, locked the door, drew the blinds and asked her to lie down.
- The receiver was slightly off the hook, tilted, but on enough that it was connected.
- When they asked British Telecom to check the line, it is claimed they were told the line was not faulty but the phone had been left off the hook.
- Harris also took the telephone off the hook so the complainant was unable to call her mother.
- She tosses her shoes at the telephone when it rings, hoping to knock the receiver off the hook.
informal (in a financial context) responsible for. 〈北美，非正式〉（金融方面）负责 he's on the hook for about $9.5 million 他对约950万美元负责。 Example sentencesExamples - And the school board is on the hook for more than $740,000 while the state investigates ‘serious allegations’ about a misallocation of money.
- And I know a lot of people worry that they'll be on the hook for more.
- Similarly, as credit cards took hold, consumers were legally on the hook for just the first $50 in unauthorized transactions.
- In the contemporary portion of the story, Alex is on the hook for $100,000 owed to loan sharks.
- A setback could damage his trade potential, and the club would be on the hook for $3 million.
- You want to know how much money you're going to be on the hook for, right?
- I am the one who, by doing this, is on the hook for 300K if it fails.
- He has $7.5 billion in loan commitments to production companies, but his bank is on the hook for only $1.3 billion of it.
- The answer will determine whether his insurers are on the hook for $3.5 billion for one event, or $7 billion for two.
- But it goes even further, because the financial institutions are only on the hook for reported thefts.
dated, informal By oneself. I'm thinking of starting a class on my own hook Example sentencesExamples - Older pickpockets, incapacitated for work on their own hook, instructed the younger charges, reducing the subject to a science.
- It is also unclear as to whether that refusal is by him on his own hook or at the instruction of the Frasers.
- We might encapsulate these promises as ‘functionality’ and ‘freedom’ - the system will work for you if you work for it, and if you can get ahead on your own hook, God bless you.
- Count William of Nevers had in the meantime set out into Asia Minor on his own hook.
informal usually in imperativeLeave; go away. 〈英，非正式〉离开；走开 Example sentencesExamples - Tell him to sling his hook and peddle his conservative tosh somewhere else.
- If by chance we should win the National next year I might just sling my hook and let the boy take the licence.
- I don't take charity cases, so if your paintings don't sell, you can sling your hook.
- Our future is very much up in the air as they may well come back to us and tell us to sling our hook.
- If they or one of their family members ever needs to use the hospice, they should be told to sling their hook.
- At this stage it's not known if they will absorbed into the Carlson Group or told to sling their hook.
- I also imagined that he would sling his hook a year before or a year after this election.
- The chorus tells us that the snotty girl tells the boy to sling his hook, because he isn't good enough for her.
- But I had no choice, the doddery old so-and-so intercepted me as I reached the stairs and I could hardly turn round and tell him to sling his hook.
Synonyms leave, go, go away, go off, take one's leave, take oneself off, withdraw, absent oneself, say one's goodbyes, quit, make an exit, exit, break camp, decamp, retreat, beat a retreat, retire
Phrasal Verbs1Link or be linked to electronic equipment. （被）连接，接上 with object Ali was hooked up to an electrocardiograph 阿里接上了心电图机。 Example sentencesExamples - She warned us in a well rehearsed sinister tone that we should not be alarmed by the medical equipment Fay had been hooked up to.
- The cows would be hooked up to the milking machine and I would be straddled atop.
- They hooked him up to machines and pumped him full of drugs.
- Every night he was hooked up to a machine at his family home in Offerton, Stockport, for 12 hours to clean his blood.
- For four hours a day, three days a week, he is hooked up to a dialysis machine, which performs the task of his own kidneys and keeps him alive.
- One promising technique for unlocking the thoughts of paralyzed patients is to hook them up to electroencephalograms.
- Brazelton hooked newborn babies up to electroencephalographs and then exposed them to a flickering light source similar to a television but with no images.
- On Christmas Eve, 10 years ago, she was hooked up to various machines in hospital after drinking to excess.
- What a coupler does is allow you to keep pins in all your attachments and hook an attachment up to the hydraulics.
- The animals are hooked up to milking machines with timers on them.
- This is the process where your computer or server tries to make a network connection via internet protocol, a common way of hooking this equipment up.
- There is also a links page, which hooks you up to a number of rare book sites and other author sites.
- Her vital organs are working fine, which means she is not hooked up to a machine.
- Do not hook your machine up to the Internet, power it up and forget about it.
- The nurse explained to me that they hook you up to a machine that takes the blood, centrifuges it, removes the platelets and most of the plasma and then gives you back everything else.
- It can connect to the Net via a standard landline, or the machine can be hooked up to a mobile phone to connect wirelessly.
- Little did the 17-year-old know that two days later, he would be hooked up to machines, not even able to cry for help.
- The only time the twins weren't hooked up to life-saving equipment was between the delivery room and intensive care.
- I checked the machines he was hooked up to, making sure his oxygen saturation levels and heart and breathing rates were what the nurses expected them to be.
- Once you hook it up to another machine, it will either overwrite the music or (if you choose) do nothing.
Synonyms attach, join, fasten, fix, affix, couple, link, bridge, secure, make fast, tie, tie up, bind, fetter, strap, rope, tether, truss, lash, hitch, moor, anchor, yoke, chain 2(of two people) meet or form a relationship. 〈非正式〉（两个人）相聚，交往 he hooked up with a friend in Budapest 他在布达佩斯见到了一位朋友。 Example sentencesExamples - She adds that she rarely hooks up with old friends from Kirkcaldy: ‘I met one at New Year and she ranted on about her choir and arias while I guzzled white wine.’
- Within days, you'll be able to find photos, download songs and hook up with friends you met at the show.
- A short while after that I met someone very much like her and we hooked up.
- She was in Florida, probably meeting dozens of good-looking beach guys and hooking up with them.
- He apparently has no problem meeting people and hooking up with people, yet he says that as soon as you're back in town he wants to settle down and be with you and never be with another girl.
- I've been in two long serious relationships, and hooking up with handsome slightly drunk rich kids was exactly what the doctor ordered.
- In college, I'd meet a guy in a bar and be hooking up with him later and completely forget his name.
- As we were homeless at this point and not meeting with any success in hooking up with Mark and Ben's sister or their friend, we decided to catch the bus back home and just hang out there.
- I moved out, hooked up with a mad woman I met at a gig and stopped hanging out with Hanna.
- When I hooked up with Kimberly, it was because our relationship was on edge and dead.
- When he goes back to his hometown for Alfredo's funeral, he hooks up with grown-up Elena, his long-lost teenage love.
- 2.1Engage in or form a casual sexual relationship.
勾搭；发生性关系 hooking up with total strangers can be very dangerous 勾搭完全的陌生人可能会很危险的。 Example sentencesExamples - In this predominantly heterosexual sample, perhaps more males are coitally hooking up with a smaller group of females who more frequently coitally hookup.
- She elaborates on how they first hooked up.
- A Detroit school-bus driver made a couple of unscheduled stops to hook up with a prostitute - who turned out to be an undercover cop.
- Whether in Venice or Hamburg, they have always hooked up - turning a mere journey into an " erotic pursuit ".
- Self-proclaimed thirty-two year old "decent guy" Jeff hooks up with a fourteen year-old girl he's been chatting with online for weeks.
- Im not gonna get hooked up just cause you say I should
- She was not about to help her creepy ex-boyfriend hook up with a girl two years too young for him.
- I didn't feel guilty, or satisfied that I'd finally hooked up with my dream girl.
- Brendan and I hooked up a couple of times.
- I entertained fantasies of one day hooking up with a man who would cover my bed with roses.
Derivativesadjective For there to be a dodgy track amongst these 32 would be as imaginable as Abba releasing a CD of hookless ditties. Example sentencesExamples - The warm summer sun shone down on Abby as she cast her line into the bay, and settled into a gentle casting rhythm that drove fish wild to jump at her hookless fly.
- Otherwise, his lumbering and largely hookless songs will leave few of those ladies begging for more.
- She was sober, and had quite forgotten the fish that were still occasionally tugging at her hookless fly.
- Otherwise all of us would be using hookless flies and not one angler in 10,000 does.
noun The hooklets, which have been often mentioned, are quite elaborate, and they are in fact one of many kinds of projections. Example sentencesExamples - In turn, the tips of the barbules have tiny hooklets that fit into grooves on adjacent barbules.
- Examine the amazing close-up of the barbules of a feather showing the tiny hooklets and grooves.
- Such larvae do not have abdominal hooklets and can be easily extracted.
- Some of its long feathers had barbules and hooklets that bound together a feather's barbs and gave the feather greater strength, flexibility and surface area.
adjective Fore and hind feet have three enlarged, hook-like claws. Example sentencesExamples - They have large lips, a long tongue, a pale muzzle and well-developed hook-like claws that enable them to climb trees and dig for termites.
- He needed 19 stitches to the wound to his face, and had a deep cut to the back of the head which was caused by a screwdriver and a punctured muscle in his arm from a hook-like gardening tool.
- Clinging to his palm with hook-like feet was one of these bizarre little lizards, its eyes rotating independently.
- Hookworms are small parasitic worms, with hook-like appendages on their mouths, that feed off the wall of the small intestine and can cause severe damage.
OriginOld English hōc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoek 'corner, angle, projecting piece of land', also to German Haken 'hook'. Hooks have many uses: for catching hold of things, for hanging things on, for controlling sheep, for carrying bait, and others. The angler's hook features in hook, line and sinker, used to emphasize that someone has been completely deceived or tricked. The items all form part of fishing tackle, where a sinker is a weight used to sink the fishing line in the water. The image behind the expression is of a hungry fish deceived by the bait into gulping everything down. The expression off the hook, ‘no longer in trouble or difficulty’, is almost the opposite: the idea here is of a fish managing to wriggle off the hook that lodged in its mouth when it took the bait. The type of hook referred to in by hook or by crook, ‘by any possible means’, is not certain. The expression goes back to the 14th century and probably comes from farming, with the crook being a shepherd's hooked staff and the hook a ‘billhook’, a heavy curved pruning knife. How these implements might have been used together comes from the writer and political reformer William Cobbett, who in 1822 described an ancient English forest law. According to this, people living near woodland were allowed to gather dead tree branches for fuel, using the hook to cut them off or the crook to pull them down. To play hookey, or play truant, is a 19th-century US expression. It probably comes from hook off or hook it, meaning ‘to go away’.
Rhymesbetook, book, brook, Brooke, Chinook, chook, Coke, cook, Cooke, crook, forsook, Gluck, look, mistook, nook, partook, rook, schnook, schtuck, Shilluk, shook, Tobruk, took, undercook, undertook Definition of hook in US English: hooknounhʊkho͝ok 1A piece of metal or other material, curved or bent back at an angle, for catching hold of or hanging things on. 钩子，吊钩，挂钩 一个画钩。 Example sentencesExamples - They once hung my little brother by the tag of his coat to metal hooks along the bus interior; which isn't to say he didn't somehow deserve it.
- I also need a hammer and nails, picture hooks and the step ladder.
- This should be as neat and clean as the interior of the house, windows gleaming and tools hung neatly on hooks on the wall.
- Those who have left keys dangling on hooks near the front door have learned the hard way.
- My grandpa had the most impressive collection of picture hooks and picture hanging implements that I have ever seen.
- Earlier in the trial, a fire investigation officer told the court the fire spread rapidly through the flat as it took hold of clothing hanging on hooks behind a door where it started.
- They sometimes used electricity, but often simply tied men's arms behind their backs and then suspended them from the wrists from large metal hooks welded to a pipe across the ceiling.
- Objects with a wide variety of weight can be supported by a metal hook on a long tapered nail driven at an angle into the plaster.
- My mother was a nut for hanging plants, so there was always one pot of greenery or another hanging from the ceiling on a hook.
- A small coat hook protruded from the wall to his left.
- An easy way to alter the look of your room is to update details like drawer pulls, towel bars, shower controls, robe hooks and soap holders.
- Nearby on the floor sat her knitting basket, from which she leaned over and pulled a crochet hook and a ball of gold-colored yarn from.
- There was a hook where a picture once hung, with horrid marks where the picture had been.
- The film gives us a sense of symmetry when, at the end, we see that upstairs hallway dotted with picture hooks - all but one of the photographs are gone.
- There was a wonderful ice-cold larder with big hooks for hanging game.
- This may seem strange at first, but think about your own home and how much the need for redecoration would become apparent once you started taking pictures and hooks off walls or moving out sofas, bookcases and beds.
- At Axelle Fine Arts, the gallery uses a hanging system that consists of two hooks and wire.
- She looked at her shoulder and saw that her laced up dress was caught on a hook.
- Toni shut the door, and I grabbed the towel off the hook by the sink.
- For hanging coat hooks, tightening door hinges and replacing washers in the toilet-tank float valve you'll need a set of screwdrivers.
- I draped his coat on an empty hook and walked into the kitchen.
- If only I can locate it - that's proving harder to find than the adhesive plastic hooks.
- Here, workers grab birds by their feet and sling them on to fast-moving metal hooks.
- We talked about the problems his father had encountered when he first lost his arm, with doctors in the UK telling him the best they could offer was a metal hook.
Synonyms peg, holder fastener, fastening, catch, clasp, hasp, clip, pin, buckle, hook and eye - 1.1 A bent piece of metal, typically barbed and baited, for catching fish.
（多指带倒刺和鱼饵的）鱼钩 Example sentencesExamples - They have delicate mouthparts, so it's really unkind to use barbed hooks on the poor things.
- Ben had tried to show her how to bait a hook earlier, but Inger felt too much sympathy for the poor worms to skewer them successfully.
- Aaron took a seat next to his brother and baited his hook.
- Once the boat had settled we shipped the oars, got out our lines, baited the hooks and dropped them over the gunwale.
- Try different baits on each of the hooks, it will soon become evident what the fish prefer.
- Two men are sitting on the jetty, fixing bait to hooks and casting fishing-lines out into the water, chatting quietly in Spanish and sipping from bottles of pop.
- The 46-year old captain was stabbed several times in the chest and head with a fish hook, the Star said.
- ‘Once you learn how to tie your own lures and bait your own hook, you can go anyplace,’ Oyler says.
- Large sea fish were caught in nets which floated below the surface of the sea and others were caught with hooks and lines.
- A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a boat, a 4x4 truck and a tent?
- The line is what connects your pole to the hook and the bait.
- I was mortified to find that I didn't remember how to bait a hook.
- Whether you're bait fishing or fly fishing don't think of using hooks less than size 6 or 8.
- Albatrosses fall prey to longlines, baited hooks stretched for miles across the oceans by commercial fishing fleets.
- It is now time to secure the hook to the end of the line, and attach the bait to the hook.
- He took out a vicious-looking fish hook from behind his back.
- After baiting the hook, you lower the line into the water and wait for the fish to bite while you watch TV or play cards.
- She baited her hook with a few worms and they spent most of the morning fishing.
- Eddie, although blind, fillets his own mackerel, and baits his own hooks.
- Their rods and lines are too heavy, their hooks and baits too large.
Synonyms fish hook, barb, snare, trap
2A thing designed to catch people's attention. 〈喻〉吸引人之物，噱头 companies are looking for a sales hook 公司在寻找卖点。 Example sentencesExamples - A good trailer is a hook, designed to leave you irresistibly compelled to come back one more time.
- There are many people who take the human capacity for faith and use it as a hook, a tool with which to harm others.
- It is the hook that gets attention and influences the purchase decision.
- The hook that caught him was the girl's attitude.
- One of the great things about blogging is that you don't need a news hook; you can write about whatever catches your eye.
- They only added that feature a few months ago, and have suddenly decided that's their hook to get attention.
- Throughout all the books, the poems become the hook for students to listen more closely to the mood and images created by Kelsey.
- 2.1 A chorus or repeated instrumental passage in a piece of popular music that gives it immediate appeal and makes it easy to remember.
（尤指流行乐、摇滚乐中）合唱（或重复）的乐器演奏片段（以快速吸引人并容易记住） Example sentencesExamples - This is good middle of the road music - there aren't any ambitious highs, but no horrible lows either - just a few Canadian boys and their catchy, happy hooks.
- There are no hooks, choruses and sometimes little in the way of melody, but it's an example of an album that I could imagine anyone enjoying.
- He certainly is an amazing pop songwriter, dropping catchy hooks and tasteful riffs left and right.
- The label immediately seized upon their talent for blending edgy, high-pitched vocals with catchy guitar hooks, as epitomised by Float On.
- After three strong tracks there's a run of tunes that simply lack any hooks or strong choruses.
- The true highlight of this song is the vocal hook of the chorus, a classic.
- They were never the most groundbreaking band on the planet, but their catchy hooks and honest energy made them a lovable presence in the indie scene of my youth.
- One thing this album could use is more catchy hooks and distinctive melodies though.
- But underneath lie a collection of catchy melodies and hooks evoking in turns the Beach Boys, Beck or early seventies avant-pop.
- Most of the songs feature solemn, at times almost whispered, vocals, with several songs employing haunting, catchy hooks.
- Given the lack of catchy hooks, however, it's clear that they still have a thing or two to learn about songwriting.
- The tunes are great, and the hooks are catchy, and that's all we're asking for these days.
- And of course, there are no big choruses or infectious hooks to get you humming along.
- Songs don't matter, it's all about hooks, choruses, catchy tunes.
- The foot-tapping Hamoa Beach, meanwhile, is simply a great listen, featuring some more tremendous hooks and another catchy chorus.
- It is quickly followed by another acoustic gem, No Goodbyes, which contains some beautiful melodies and genuinely catchy hooks.
- This is where she is at her best, with simple song structure and deft musical hooks reeling in the listener.
- Oddly enough, the album finds a reinvigorated Bolan crafting some of his best hooks and calibrating his catchiest grooves in years.
- Sporting a big beat sound with catchy hooks isn't enough nowadays.
- As Lipstick Traces demonstrates, even the band's B-sides feature catchy hooks, witty lyrics and solid rock song structures and dynamics.
3A curved cutting instrument, especially as used for reaping or shearing. （尤指用于收割、剪羊毛）弧形切割工具 Example sentencesExamples - The gang attacked him in the doorway of the hotel where he was working, armed with slash hooks and hammers after hearing his English accent.
- In summer for the wheat harvest, everybody was given a reaping hook to work in the fields.
- He arranged two lines of men with flails, clubs, pitchforks, sickles, and reaping hooks.
4A short swinging punch made with the elbow bent, especially in boxing. （尤指拳击中）钩拳 a perfectly timed right hook to the chin 非常适时的击中下巴的右钩拳。 Example sentencesExamples - A left hook from British Boxer Henry Cooper floored Cassius Clay at Wembley in 1963.
- I had chances to throw the left hook, my best punch, but I couldn't get my shoulder up.
- By the end of the round Ellis is pinned against the ropes and Frazier is landing body shots and short hooks to the head.
- In the fourth round Quarry stunned Orbillo with a counter hook off the ropes.
- Norton began to score with left hooks and overhand rights.
- Expect a large assortment of straights, jabs, uppercuts, hooks, and more.
- Pendleton went down face first from the short left hook behind his elbow and had no chance of meeting the count.
- In the process he was caught by a left hook which left him entangled on the ropes.
- Mike's favorite punch is the right hook and my favorite punch is his left hook, so we disagree in what his best shot is.
- He was catching Klitschko with upper cuts and hooks.
- In a pulsating third round Mick finally began to impose his will and power, and with some excellent uppercuts and hooks forced the referee to administer two standing eight counts to Hodson.
- Martin continues to press and throw hooks to the body.
- She responds with a right hook and catches him off guard.
- He had a good long hard jab, his left hook and left uppercut were devastating punches.
- Foster possessed one of the most powerful punches ever seen on a light heavyweight, his left hook.
- Round 14 is literally about the logistics of countering a hook with an uppercut.
- Ryan threw a right hook, catching the bully in the jaw.
- Then I followed it up with a right hook that caught him in the ribs.
- Barry charged out of his corner and continued to rake Steve with left hooks to the body but the punches were becoming noticeably slower.
- Cintron's hooks, uppercuts, and overhand rights dictated the fight and the win.
Synonyms punch, blow, hit, box, cuff, thump, smack, crack, knock, thwack - 4.1Golf A stroke that makes the ball deviate in flight in the direction of the follow-through (from right to left for a right-handed player), typically inadvertently.
〔高尔夫〕（多指无意中的）曲线球（使用右手的选手从右边击到左边） Compare with slice Example sentencesExamples - I hit a few hooks, slices, low shots and high fades.
- Too often players subconsciously misalign their shoulders to compensate for their usual hook or slice.
- The wind heightens any spin on the ball, and accentuates a slice or a hook.
- Nobody has trouble putting sidespin on the ball - that's what produces hooks and slices.
- An important point to remember is that orienting a shaft in a way that might correct a hook or a slice remains an infraction of the rules.
5A curved stroke in handwriting, especially as made in learning to write. （尤指学写字时）弯曲的笔画 Example sentencesExamples - Kurtz notes, ‘The small hooks at the end of the "t" and the "i" indicate a writer who is tenacious, holds on to beliefs, doctrines, ideals.’
- Place the pen on the paper, pull up then straight down, then make a small hook.
- 5.1Music An added stroke transverse to the stem in the symbol for an eighth note or other note.
〔乐〕符尾 Example sentencesExamples - Any note shorter than a quarter note has one or more hooks to indicate its length.
6usually in place names A curved promontory or sand spit. 弧形岬（或沙嘴） Example sentencesExamples - The United States owned the entire promontory of Sandy Hook.
verbhʊkho͝ok 1with object and adverbial Attach or fasten with a hook or hooks. （用钩子）钩住（或固定住） the truck had a red lamp hooked to its tailgate 卡车有盏红灯用钩子挂在后挡板上。 she tried to hook up her bra 她试图把胸罩扣上。 no object a ladder that hooks over the roof ridge 挂在屋脊上的梯子。 Example sentencesExamples - Metal ladder brackets allow you to hook a ladder over the ridge of a house.
- Now imagine if the bottom of the ladder slips slightly while the top is hooked over a branch.
- An older man farther along the edge of the water hooks the suitcase with his umbrella-handle, brings it ashore, leaves it there, and moves on.
- Pirates hooked a metal ladder to the 58m boat and climbed aboard.
- He fires a grappling hook that hooks itself onto the balustrade of the rooftop garden.
- Michelle carefully hooked the clasp and turned Dylan to face her.
- She had just finished hooking the last clasp when Loretta turned to her holding up a delicate silver chain and smiling triumphantly.
- One interesting solution is to hook your thumb drive to a neck strap to make a necklace, or a key chain, That way, you will never leave home without it.
Synonyms attach, fix, hitch, fasten, secure, clasp - 1.1 Bend or be bent into the shape of a hook so as to fasten around or to an object.
（弯成钩子的形状）钩在，钩住 with object he hooked his thumbs in his belt 他把大拇指钩拉在腰带上。 no object her legs hooked around mine 她的腿钩住了我的。 Example sentencesExamples - She blushed and wagged her finger as if admonishing a small terrier, then hooked her arm in mine and steered me towards the pub.
- York and Coll hooked arms to support the woman, Clark recalled.
- I hooked his arm in mine and laid my head on his shoulder.
- He hooked his arm in mine and slowly led me to the dining room.
- Gliding up to me in smooth strides, he hooked his arm with mine, attempting a British accent.
- She hooked her arm in mine and we practically ran to a private secluded area.
- Dropping down a few branches, I hooked my legs over a branch and hung upside down, the way I did when I was a kid.
- Then I noticed that he had slipped his arm through mine, hooking our elbows together.
- In the end he had to swing himself up, hanging upside-down for a moment before he hooked his legs over the branch and drew himself up.
- I hooked my thumbs through my belt loops and observed the class.
- Isabella hooked her arm through mine and dragged me in.
- I hooked my arm through his and willed myself not to laugh for the next five minutes.
- ‘Nick'll protect me,’ said Sarah quickly, hooking her arm around Nick's.
- He moved back a bit and hooked her legs through his arms.
- Lithe as a monkey, he climbed across a tree branch, and hooked his legs over the branch, hanging upside down and swinging back and forth.
- I hooked my thumbs around the front belt loops of my jeans.
- In case you were wondering, you hook your arms through the straps of another jumper's parachute.
- But he moved with a confident stride, hooking his thumbs through the belt loops of his pants, and keeping his head high.
- The announcement doesn't seem to faze Jonathan Leidich, our guide, who hooks his thumbs in his pack straps and beams.
- I shrugged, hooked Danielle's arm through mine, and followed Ryan.
Synonyms curl, bend, crook, loop, angle, curve
2with object Catch with a hook. （用钩子）钩住，挂住 他钓起了一条24磅重的狗鱼。 Example sentencesExamples - Coastal fishermen should not be nearly so amazed when they hook giants.
- It is a sad state of affairs when anglers board a charter boat and you know before they hook their first fish that they are going to have a problem with landing fish.
- And so the old man, alone, ventures out into the Gulf Stream where he hooks the largest marlin ever seen.
- I managed to get a few takes, but only hooked one fish which shook the hook before I landed it.
- From then on we started hooking single dorados for about an hour, but we realised that there were plenty around, because every time we hooked one we saw lots of others following it.
- I'd been in the water for around twenty minutes (and I was told that this was a surprisingly slow day) when I hooked my first New Zealand rainbow.
- But once several fish have been hooked you can see the difference in all the carp in that water.
- I went for another half an hour before hooking my third rainbow making me the only angler to land three fish.
- Once the fish is hooked and the line comes tight the pollack will turn and dive for the nearest cover.
- You stand every chance of hooking an 8lb plus fish doing this, especially off Inner and Outer Head (marked on an O/S map).
- I have been experimenting with small circle hooks for the last couple of seasons and truly believe that they are better at hooking plaice than conventional hooks.
- Proud of a nice catch, Myrtle McDonald hooked this fish in the Chapman River.
- At one point I was hooking fish and dragging them over the back of an alligator.
- Half an hour before dusk, I hooked a big fish that wouldn't move off the bottom.
- Beware though: hooking the prize catch is one thing, securing it in your keepnet another.
- He said that I had been playing the fish for over 10 minutes and to take my time as I had obviously hooked a very big one.
- That's perhaps not a typical example, because hooking a giant trevally is akin to sticking a fly into the mouth of a Hereford bull.
- Nine out of ten fish are hooked in the front of their mouth making their release very quick and simple.
- I saw enough though to realise that future anglers visiting this amazing place are going to hook some monster fish.
- Try hooking a 20 lb carp in 12 inches of water and see the explosion.
- During the late afternoon I hooked a fish on my lighter rod, a fish which actually put up a bit of resistance.
Synonyms catch, take, land, net, bag, snare, ensnare, trap, entrap - 2.1informal Captivate.
I was hooked by John's radical zeal 我被约翰的狂热吸引住了。 Example sentencesExamples - What was it about that cheetah that hooked his attention so?
- If it continued to hook her attention she would hold onto it.
- Your first task is to grab attention with a good catchy opening - hook your audience with a bait.
- A small crowd was gathering around them already, the onlookers' attention hooked with the hype of a fight breaking out.
- Well, this was just the introduction with which he hooked children and got them listening in rapt attention to his lecture.
- One inconsequential little jamless doughnut sets in chain a ripple of growing anger that hooks the attention of our entire nation.
- If they can capture our attention now, they have hooked us for future years and we are far more likely to buy from their site advertisers.
- But reading soap previews, those little nuggets meant either to catch you up or hook you in, are very entertaining.
- The teachers needed a selection of books that would catch the reluctant readers' attention and hook them on reading.
- 2.2archaic, informal Steal.
〈古，非正式〉偷窃 Synonyms purloin, thieve, take, take for oneself, help oneself to, loot, pilfer, abscond with, run off with, appropriate, abstract, carry off, shoplift
3Golf
with object Strike (the ball) or play (a stroke) so that the ball deviates in the direction of the follow-through, typically inadvertently. 〔高尔夫〕（多指无意地）击曲线球 Example sentencesExamples - If you're slicing or hooking the ball, the divot hole can point the way to a cure.
- He shouldn't overdo it, though: The flatter the backswing, the easier it is to hook the ball.
- ‘As long as he doesn't try to hook the ball, he's going to be all right,’ says Smith.
- If he didn't correct that position on the way down, he would hook the ball.
- To draw or hook a golf ball, you must have fast hands.
4Boxing
no object Punch one's opponent with the elbow bent. 〔拳击〕用钩拳击打 Example sentencesExamples - From round 3 on, it was all Shields as he would hook, and uppercut his way to victory.
5Rugby
with object Push (the ball) backward with the foot from the front line in a scrum. 〔英橄〕（并列争球时用脚）往后钩传 Example sentencesExamples - This is done by hooking the ball with the soft swinging motion of one of the feet as the teams 8-man scrum pack pushes forward to give the hooker more room to hook the ball.
- At this point, the hookers both attempt to hook the ball back to their teammates.
- You can only hook the ball back with your feet.
6usually as noun hookinginformal no object (of a woman) work as a prostitute. 〈非正式〉（妇女）当妓女，卖淫
PhrasesBy any possible means. 千方百计 the government intends, by hook or by crook, to hold on to the land 政府打算千方百计地保留那块地。 Example sentencesExamples - Parents are compelled to make money by hook or by crook for the ‘safe’ future of their children.
- The present set of officials, according to Rover, want to be elected by hook or by crook.
- Sometimes, it takes years and years to finally get it done, but by never backing down, by never giving up, they get these films to the screen by hook or by crook.
- Their only concern is to win the match by hook or by crook and be in line to enter the final round.
- I have told them I will replace everything by hook or by crook.
- I made a mental note to try and procure some guest passes by hook or by crook.
- It doesn't matter what we think, say the focus groups, the political elite wants to join the euro and, by hook or by crook, it will force us into membership.
- A driving-school trainer said that people want a licence by hook or by crook, without mastering the basics of driving a vehicle.
- Every Friday, by hook or by crook, I was in front of the TV set.
- Reality has to be kept at a distance by hook or by crook.
Synonyms by any means, by any means whatsoever, somehow, somehow or other, no matter how, in one way or another, by fair means or foul
informal Get hold of. 〈非正式〉抓住，得到；控制 they were going to move out rather than let Mel get his hooks into them 他们打算搬出去而不是让梅尔控制他们。 Example sentencesExamples - And once he got his hooks into you, he made your life hell by hanging round outside your house until you threw things at him.
- Horton, meanwhile, is in his own tizzy, terrified that gold-digging dames will get their hooks into Fred.
- I feel no compulsion to call some long-term, live-in partner my husband, provided I can still get my hooks into his pension if he suddenly meets a mysterious end while I'm across town in a crowded bar, as several witnesses would attest.
- It is something that you can get your hooks into.
- It's hard not to see house number three and think ‘We must buy this now before a crusty investor gets their hooks into it!’
- The only regret is not having got my hooks into this fascinating collection sooner, considering it was first published in 1995.
- The implication is that a woman's sole goal in life is to ‘get her hooks into’ a man.
- His unlikely plot machinations take some swallowing, but his characters truly get their hooks into you.
- Wait till they get their hooks into your pension funds!
- When she couldn't get her hooks into Alan, she went after your brother.
get (or give someone) the hook informal Be dismissed (or dismiss someone) from a job. 〈北美，非正式〉被解雇（或解雇某人） Example sentencesExamples - The crowd loved it, but the soundman gave us the hook after only 15 minutes.
- She was the cause of all my boyfriends giving me the hook because after they saw her, they could never be fully in love with me.
- He continued his late-season struggles into the playoffs, getting the hook in Game 2 after surrendering three goals in the first 15 minutes.
- It was the day after I got the hook and I wasn't used to it.
- The PM, all the while insisting the minister hadn't done anything wrong, gave him the hook.
- He is aware that scientist and physician founders often get the hook if their management skills don't equal their research feats.
- A rotund young woman made her entry one amateur night in Connecticut - and got the hook even before she stepped onstage.
- But at issue before he got the hook was his performance, not his work ethic, professionalism or effort.
Used to emphasize that someone has been completely deceived or tricked. 完全地，彻底地（强调被完全欺骗或愚弄） he fell hook, line, and sinker for this year's April Fool joke 在今年的愚人节他成了十足的受愚弄对象。 Example sentencesExamples - He had them falling for it; hook, line, and sinker.
- If that is true, then they took the bait, hook, line, and sinker.
- I expected them to laugh it off as yet another hoax, but was surprised when the former hoaxers bought into my doctored photo hook, line, and sinker.
- Mr Peters has fallen for that, hook, line, and sinker.
- Someone at the newspaper swallowed the fake memo hook, line, and sinker.
- I think that she fell prey to someone much more powerful and more cunning than she was and believed everything he said hook, line, and sinker, and she's a victim of crime, the way I see it.
- Of course, the media swallowed it - as they always do - hook, line, and sinker.
- Of course, most who read this tripe have zero knowledge of firearms and swallow it hook, line, and sinker which is the goal.
- What is a good deal more disturbing is that U.S. and international media outlets consistently swallowed the opposition's unlikely claims of certain victory hook, line, and sinker.
- But that doesn't mean some 18-year-old kid isn't going to take it hook, line, and sinker and try to top it.
Synonyms completely, totally, utterly, entirely, absolutely, thoroughly, wholly, through and through, one hundred per cent, lock, stock, and barrel
1No longer in difficulty or trouble. 〈非正式〉摆脱困境（或麻烦） I lied to get him off the hook 为了让他摆脱麻烦我撒了谎。 Example sentencesExamples - Alexander has no truck with the view that pushing the voluntary sector into the forefront of social change is letting the state off the hook.
- I didn't have a chance to submit my questions to you in advance so I'm going to let you off the hook.
- Unfortunately, such action, welcome though it will be, is unlikely to get the Chancellor off the hook that easily.
- Even America, which is the leader of the democratic world, does not let corrupt directors get off the hook.
- Only when the mom told the judge that her mother had stayed with them in their hotel room was she off the hook.
- She let him off the hook since that also meant letting herself off the hook.
- You didn't think I was letting her off the hook that easily, did you?
- I don't think he's off the hook at all, because either he was misled or he deliberately lied.
- Some criticise this as letting property owners off the hook.
- They often use the paperwork loophole to get themselves off the hook.
Synonyms out of trouble, free, in the clear, under no obligation 2(of a telephone receiver) not on its rest, and so preventing incoming calls. （电话听筒）没挂上（以至于电话无法打入） Example sentencesExamples - When the maid found her body, she noticed the telephone was off the hook.
- Whilst he was clearing up the mess, he noticed the phone was off the hook.
- Harris also took the telephone off the hook so the complainant was unable to call her mother.
- He took the telephone off the hook, placed cushions on the floor, locked the door, drew the blinds and asked her to lie down.
- When they asked British Telecom to check the line, it is claimed they were told the line was not faulty but the phone had been left off the hook.
- The receiver was slightly off the hook, tilted, but on enough that it was connected.
- The phone was still off the hook - his sister had touched nothing, as though this were his last fragile sandcastle.
- She tosses her shoes at the telephone when it rings, hoping to knock the receiver off the hook.
- She prefers to leave the phone off the hook because it was the telephone that brought the fateful news.
informal (in a financial context) responsible for. 〈北美，非正式〉（金融方面）负责 he's on the hook for about $9.5 million 他对约950万美元负责。 Example sentencesExamples - I am the one who, by doing this, is on the hook for 300K if it fails.
- You want to know how much money you're going to be on the hook for, right?
- But it goes even further, because the financial institutions are only on the hook for reported thefts.
- Similarly, as credit cards took hold, consumers were legally on the hook for just the first $50 in unauthorized transactions.
- He has $7.5 billion in loan commitments to production companies, but his bank is on the hook for only $1.3 billion of it.
- The answer will determine whether his insurers are on the hook for $3.5 billion for one event, or $7 billion for two.
- And the school board is on the hook for more than $740,000 while the state investigates ‘serious allegations’ about a misallocation of money.
- A setback could damage his trade potential, and the club would be on the hook for $3 million.
- And I know a lot of people worry that they'll be on the hook for more.
- In the contemporary portion of the story, Alex is on the hook for $100,000 owed to loan sharks.
dated, informal On one's own account; by oneself. 〈非正式，旧，主美〉独立地，独自地，单独 Example sentencesExamples - We might encapsulate these promises as ‘functionality’ and ‘freedom’ - the system will work for you if you work for it, and if you can get ahead on your own hook, God bless you.
- Count William of Nevers had in the meantime set out into Asia Minor on his own hook.
- It is also unclear as to whether that refusal is by him on his own hook or at the instruction of the Frasers.
- Older pickpockets, incapacitated for work on their own hook, instructed the younger charges, reducing the subject to a science.
Phrasal Verbs1Link or be linked to electronic equipment. （被）连接，接上 he was hooked up to an electrocardiograph 阿里接上了心电图机。 Example sentencesExamples - The animals are hooked up to milking machines with timers on them.
- Brazelton hooked newborn babies up to electroencephalographs and then exposed them to a flickering light source similar to a television but with no images.
- The cows would be hooked up to the milking machine and I would be straddled atop.
- On Christmas Eve, 10 years ago, she was hooked up to various machines in hospital after drinking to excess.
- There is also a links page, which hooks you up to a number of rare book sites and other author sites.
- What a coupler does is allow you to keep pins in all your attachments and hook an attachment up to the hydraulics.
- Do not hook your machine up to the Internet, power it up and forget about it.
- This is the process where your computer or server tries to make a network connection via internet protocol, a common way of hooking this equipment up.
- It can connect to the Net via a standard landline, or the machine can be hooked up to a mobile phone to connect wirelessly.
- The only time the twins weren't hooked up to life-saving equipment was between the delivery room and intensive care.
- One promising technique for unlocking the thoughts of paralyzed patients is to hook them up to electroencephalograms.
- She warned us in a well rehearsed sinister tone that we should not be alarmed by the medical equipment Fay had been hooked up to.
- They hooked him up to machines and pumped him full of drugs.
- The nurse explained to me that they hook you up to a machine that takes the blood, centrifuges it, removes the platelets and most of the plasma and then gives you back everything else.
- For four hours a day, three days a week, he is hooked up to a dialysis machine, which performs the task of his own kidneys and keeps him alive.
- Her vital organs are working fine, which means she is not hooked up to a machine.
- Every night he was hooked up to a machine at his family home in Offerton, Stockport, for 12 hours to clean his blood.
- Little did the 17-year-old know that two days later, he would be hooked up to machines, not even able to cry for help.
- I checked the machines he was hooked up to, making sure his oxygen saturation levels and heart and breathing rates were what the nurses expected them to be.
- Once you hook it up to another machine, it will either overwrite the music or (if you choose) do nothing.
Synonyms attach, join, fasten, fix, affix, couple, link, bridge, secure, make fast, tie, tie up, bind, fetter, strap, rope, tether, truss, lash, hitch, moor, anchor, yoke, chain 2Engage in or form a casual sexual relationship. 勾搭；发生性关系 hooking up with total strangers can be very dangerous 勾搭完全的陌生人可能会很危险的。 Example sentencesExamples - Im not gonna get hooked up just cause you say I should
- I didn't feel guilty, or satisfied that I'd finally hooked up with my dream girl.
- I entertained fantasies of one day hooking up with a man who would cover my bed with roses.
- Self-proclaimed thirty-two year old "decent guy" Jeff hooks up with a fourteen year-old girl he's been chatting with online for weeks.
- Whether in Venice or Hamburg, they have always hooked up - turning a mere journey into an " erotic pursuit ".
- She elaborates on how they first hooked up.
- Brendan and I hooked up a couple of times.
- She was not about to help her creepy ex-boyfriend hook up with a girl two years too young for him.
- In this predominantly heterosexual sample, perhaps more males are coitally hooking up with a smaller group of females who more frequently coitally hookup.
- A Detroit school-bus driver made a couple of unscheduled stops to hook up with a prostitute - who turned out to be an undercover cop.
3(of two people) meet or form a relationship. 〈非正式〉（两个人）相聚，交往 she decides to hook up with Jake, a kid from the nearby boys' school
OriginOld English hōc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoek ‘corner, angle, projecting piece of land’, also to German Haken ‘hook’. |