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ensnare

/en-snair/US // ɛnˈsnɛər //UK // (ɪnˈsnɛə) //

坑蒙拐骗,坑杀,坑害,坑骗

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    en·snared, en·snar·ing.

    • : to capture in, or involve as in, a snare: to be ensnared by lies; to ensnare birds.

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Examples

  • It’s a sign that a once-respectable movie star has been ensnared by a vicious snake of a woman, and that he is now under her spell, emasculated and laughable.

  • California had better mechanisms than most states to ensure people didn’t become needlessly ensnared in the system — on paper.

  • Wyss said “forensic analyses” have found that 1 to 2 percent of the wipes in fatbergs were designed as flushable, probably getting ensnared quickly before they could disintegrate.

  • Traditional TV’s adoption of digital’s audience-based ad targeting is underway, but it remains ensnared by a lack of standardization.

  • When Netflix launched in India in 2016, it hired Kashyap to co-direct its first original series, Sacred Games, about an underworld don in Mumbai who ensnares an upright police officer.

  • Instead, cops monitor such sites to ensnare workers and their clients.

  • To do her job, the alien drives around in a white van and goes looking for men to ensnare.

  • In that sense, it's a twofer that could ensnare both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

  • Fraud followers will recognize this as a “prime bank” scam, of the type usually used to ensnare Florida retirees.

  • There are three pathways the Siren uses to ensnare a target.

  • We all bow to the seor, and I wonder if he is really the private secretary, or a private humbug, waiting around to ensnare us.

  • This insect is the most subtle and dangerous enemy the ant has; the plans which he forms to ensnare his prey, are very ingenious.

  • "I must take a little, only a little," he said, and that little continually asserted its power to entice and ensnare.

  • But as the mandarin cast his net into the deep he thought he would rather ensnare his host's lovely wife.

  • Whilst they are reeling under the blow throw out a gentle hint that Constance may ensnare Traill's nephew.