1A device or enclosure designed to catch and retain animals, typically by allowing entry but not exit or by catching hold of a part of the body.

1. 1.1 The compartment from which a greyhound is released at the start of a race.
   （赛狗开始时放灵𤟥冲出的）放狗隔栏
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The supporting card provided top class entertainment despite the fact that there was some controversy regarding the opening of the traps for the fifth race.
   • Indeed when she led out of traps the race as a contest appeared all over.
   • The fifth race was re-run after the traps failed to open on time, and it resulted in victory going to Ardbeg Smokey which won in 16.66.
   • Like a greyhound out of a trap at Harold's Cross on a Friday night John Bee sprung into action.
   • Saturday morning traffic, cars stalled like greyhounds waiting for the traps to open.
   • Tyrone came racing out of the traps like well-trained greyhounds hungry for the only prize that mattered.
   • An Gaeltacht came out of traps like a good greyhound, took the game doggedly and determinedly to the leaders, and had them reeling as they attempted to hold the Western champions at bay.
   • Waterford started in a blaze of glory, racing out of the traps but the worldly wise Claremen just bided their time and struck with deadly force.
   • Only four went to traps for the opening race over 575 yards.
   • Only four runners went to traps for this race with the Martin Sweeney trained Windseye Pride the odds on favourite at 4 / 6.
   • But it's like, he's scarcely out of the traps when the race is over, if you know what I mean.
   • Like greyhounds out of traps, the opening of the doors sparks a mad rush for the station exits.

2A situation in which people lie in wait to make a surprise attack.

1. 2.1 A trick by which someone is misled into acting contrary to their interests or intentions.
   诡计，陷阱
   by keeping quiet I was walking into a trap

   我默不作声正好入了圈套。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • I suspect Bush may be walking into a trap in considering retaliation.
   • I felt he was so used to being dismissed that he found my compliments false, a trick, a trap, a delusion.
   • This is a trap, a trick, something sneaky to test me.

   Synonyms

   trick, stratagem, ploy, ruse, wile, deception, artifice, subterfuge, device, trickery
2. 2.2 An unpleasant situation from which it is hard to escape.
   困境
   they fell into the trap of relying too little on equity financing

   他们陷入了对主权资金依赖程度过低的困境。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Most very local papers escape the trap of defining news strictly as events.
   • It would be easy in such a story to fall into some familiar traps in writing about race relations.
   • Believe me, you will eventually find that you are relieved you were able to escape the trap of unhappiness you were in!
   • By far one of the most thought provoking reads I've had in a long time. I fell into the trap of buying the movie not 10 minutes after putting it down.
   • Perhaps some of the players fell into the trap that somehow Manchester United had a divine right to continue winning things.
   • Pleasure turns to horror when the realize that they have walked into a cunning trap, where the harder they try to run, the worse their predicament.
   • Looking back now I realise that I fell into the trap of over-training.
   • I'm confident that they calculate the ability of first homebuyers to afford homes by focusing solely on those who, against the odds, have escaped the rent trap.
   • But he too fell into the trap of name-calling and distortion when he derided ‘populism of the left that rejects globalisation’.
   • Others fell into the trap I narrowly avoided while deciding on my outfit - accessorizing into hipness.
   • It's true that the film is overtly message driven, but that's a difficult trap to escape.
   • This morning I almost fell into the trap of wishing for quieter times.
   • Vice-captain Matt Burke said the Australians had to concentrate on their own game and not fall into the trap of watching the scoreboard.
   • If we could adapt our image and actions to blend in with the pale landscape of suburban life, then we could escape the trap of family obligation and expectations.
   • Williams has not fallen into the rookie trap of overpursuing frequently.
   • He fell into the trap of flogging the players at training and settling too early on his Test team.
   • One way or another, sooner or later, consumers and producers will escape the sugar trap that ensnares them both.
   • How can the Democratic candidates escape the trap they set for themselves?
   • I will have to avoid falling into the trap of trying too hard.
   • The call for women to start families earlier fell into the trap of ignoring the social and economic realities forcing many women to put off childbirth, they said.

   Synonyms

   ambush, lure, decoy, bait

   snare, net

3with modifier A container or device used to collect a specified thing.

燃料系统只需一个燃料过滤器和集水器。

1. 3.1 A curve in the waste pipe from a bathtub, sink, or toilet that is always full of liquid and prevents gases from coming up the pipe into the building.
   （浴池、水池、马桶的防臭气）存水弯，U形弯管
   Example sentencesExamples

   • For the first time, I've experienced a most unwelcome intrusion into the most sacred of personal spaces - the toilet trap.
   • Another common practice is the addition of automotive antifreeze to toilets and sink traps.
   • If some such object is presently lodged in your toilet trap, it may be necessary to detach the bowl from the floor.
   • I didn't complain as I unclogged and scoured the grease traps and toilets.
   • Close the water valves and disconnect the water lines just above the valves and the drain piping at the trap.
2. 3.2 A bunker or other hollow on a golf course.
   （高尔夫球场的）沙坑，凹地
   Example sentencesExamples

   • They first looked at magnetic crystals found in mud samples from a water trap of an Australian golf course.
   • How many of you playing out of a sand trap at a local golf course have considered which beach the sand originated from?
   • We have confirmed from the ground and verified through satellite imagery that this place has no fairways, just one big sand trap.
   • It can maintain the shape of sand traps and bunkers as well as quickly create flower beds and tree rings in other parts of the landscape.
   • He kept Europe ahead at the ninth with a sensational bunker shot from an awkward lie in a greenside trap, followed by a successful putt.

4A light, two-wheeled carriage pulled by a horse or pony.

5A device for hurling an object such as a clay pigeon into the air to be shot at.

1. 5.1historical (in the game of trapball) the shoe-shaped device that is hit with a bat to send the ball into the air.
   〈史〉（射球戏用的）抛球器

6

7informal A person's mouth (used in expressions to do with speaking)

闭上你的嘴巴！

8usually trapsinformal Percussion instruments, typically in a jazz band.

9US informal A place where drugs are sold.

10American Football Baseball
An act of trapping the ball.

1Catch (an animal) in a trap.

1. 1.1 Prevent (someone) from escaping from a place.
   阻止…逃跑，使无法脱身
   twenty workers were trapped by flames

   二十名工人身陷火海。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Millions of working people and their families are trapped in a vicious circle from which there is no escape.
   • Pictorially, for Louis de Roncherolles there is no escape; he is trapped for perpetuity within a closed circle of mourning and death.
   • By the time Mary and her sisters had reached the bottom of the stairs, the front door was up in flames and had trapped the family in the house.
   • And he realises he is trapped in a vice from which he cannot escape, so he resorts to repression.
   • She'd trapped a mouse behind it and was moaning in frustration at not being able to go in for the kill.
   • When late one evening neighbours noticed smoke coming from the house there was no hope of Blanche escaping - she was trapped in her home made prison.
   • The hopelessness and lack of escape traps the young girl in a never-ending cycle of exploitation.
   • If your mum and dad were trapped in marriage for twenty years not because they loved each other, but because they were in need of the comfort, would you write a song about it?
   • Conservationists say 120,000 elephants are now trapped in Botswana, with no natural routes to follow back to the river.
   • I sometimes feel that I am trapped here, surrounded by concrete, and that I will never get out.
   • I was trapped, caged, imprisoned in a dungeon of my own making.
   • The sheets were burning around me and I was trapped in a deadly circle of flames.
   • He had an amazing escape when he was trapped under a 30-ton skip for 90 minutes and emerged with hardly a scratch.
   • Like many other girls, the teenager was trapped in a vicious circle.
   • During the day, we were trapped in the confines of the Schumann metro stop.
   • A stark warning was issued this week when a mother and her baby were trapped in their burning home after arsonists torched their only escape route.
   • He proved to be a tall man, intimidating the false lieutenant enough that he slithered sideways along the main console like a deer trapped by a cougar.
   • Some nights he dreams his wife and daughter are trapped in a circle of flame away from him.
   • The checkpoint opens and closes randomly, trapping students and workers on the wrong side after a day at work or school, preventing them from returning home.
   • The thick smoke and flames trapped people upstairs.
2. 1.2 Have (something, typically a part of the body) held tightly by something so that it cannot move or be freed.
   （尤指身体某部位等）被卡住
   he had trapped his finger in a spring-loaded hinge

   他把手指卡在弹簧铰链里了。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • ‘For the past two months I haven't been able to exercise much because I trapped a nerve in my leg,’ he said.
   • He had recommended installing added safety measures and even devised a device that could be fitted to prevent someone being trapped.
   • A mountaineer had to cut off his right arm to free himself after being trapped under a falling boulder.
   • She also realised most of her body was trapped, and this made Victoria scared.
   • They told her she just needed physiotherapy but, in fact, they had trapped the median nerve, and it was only four months later that a Manchester consultant realised what was wrong.
   • Continuing to pull Uke's arm towards his own head, Tori sits down as close to his right heel as possible and, lying back, clamps his knees together tightly trapping Uke's right arm.
   • He punched her on the back to get her breathing and forced down pieces of wood, which her head was trapped between, to free her.
   • He is on crutches after snapping a hamstring and trapping a nerve in his back in the Northern Counties East League Cup win over Yorkshire Amateur.
   • His body is trapped permanently in a glacier beneath the mountain that took him.
   • Scar tissue had formed, trapping a nerve, so I had to have another operation nine months later.
   • She didn't have time to scream, or escape, because soon her whole body was trapped.
   • Sometimes it can be genuinely disabling without the right treatment, if a nerve is trapped or a disc is bulging.
   • Her whole body is totally trapped - if she moves at all, her bones break.
   • Not only did he go through the trauma of trapping his finger in a door at his school, but he then had to be taken back to the hospital on three days and had to endure 14 hours without food before his injury could be stitched.
   • Cassian valiantly resisted the urge to trap them beneath his free hand.
   • Walking along the corridor, I then trapped the middle finger of my left hand in a door.
   • He was due to have surgery after trapping his finger in a bike chain.
   • He had wrongly accused him of trapping his fingers in a taxi door when he punched him to the ground in front of his wife and 12-year-old son.
   • When he arrived at the hospital on the day of the operation Tony, who was injured after trapping his finger in his bike chain, was playing on computers.
   • He thought at first he'd simply trapped a nerve, which was causing the feeling of numbness and tingling in his right arm.

   Synonyms

   get stuck, catch, get caught
3. 1.3 Induce (someone), by means of trickery or deception, to do something they would not otherwise want to do.
   I hoped to trap him into an admission

   我曾想诱他承认。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Neither was he trapped nor did they fool him for a nanosecond.
   • They trap you and lure you in with catchy taglines and suspenseful previews.
   • They liked seeing if they could trick and trap her.
   • They expect to meet someone there to click with, but fear being trapped and made a fool of.
   • I think he was, in effect, trapped or tricked by the silly and dangerous set up which the highway authority had decided to institute.
   • It was this lure of unearthing the unknown that drove him and sometimes trapped him into making mistakes.
   • She was trapped by her sister, Carol, who tricked her into confessing her secret and used a hidden tape recorder to record her words.
   • Reporters were trying to trap him in some kind of contradiction.
   • Register readers described how the ‘neat’ trick could trap the unwary.
   • I could tell he was trying to trap me, but I did not let myself be caught by my tongue.
   • I don't, like anybody else, want to be trapped or be misrepresented intentionally by someone.
   • But this then was a lure, to trap unions into giving up their defense of their pensions, their social security and other pensions.
   • The trick is trapping someone into thinking it the problem has to be dealt with in polar opposites.
   • So, too, is David trapped when the prophet Nathan uses a story to catch his king's conscience.

   Synonyms

   trick, dupe, deceive, cheat, lure, inveigle, beguile, fool, hoodwink, seduce, cajole, wheedle, gull
4. 1.4American Football Baseball Catch (the ball) after it has briefly touched the ground.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Philadelphia players streamed from the dugout, insisting Ruble had trapped the ball.
   • Then Manny Mota hits a fly ball to Greg Luzinski who tries to catch it but the umps claim he trapped it against the wall.
5. 1.5Soccer Bring (the ball) under control with the feet or other part of the body on receiving it.
   〔英足〕停（球）
   Example sentencesExamples

   • That's usually English commentator-speak for: ‘He can trap a ball without falling over.’
   • Forlan traps the ball on the left-hand side of the box and volleys it first time through a crowded area and to the left of a diving Sylva.
   • But already this, unlike this afternoon's affairs, looks like a proper match, with passing and players who can trap the ball and that.
   • After 13 minutes a long punt up field by Worns found Kevin Kuranyi who trapped the ball with his chest, turned but fired wide from the edge of the box.
   • Because there is no doubt about his ability, as evidenced by the superb piece of skill he showed when trapping a through ball in the first half before jinking his way past three players to work an opening.

Put trappings on (a horse)

Basalt or a similar dark, fine-grained igneous rock.