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flytrap

/flahy-trap/US // ˈflaɪˌtræp //UK // (ˈflaɪˌtræp) //

捕蝇草,捕蝇器,捕蝇夹,捕蝇剂

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various plants that entrap insects, especially Venus's-flytrap.
    • : a trap for flies.

Examples

  • His descriptions of New York bars as tumbledown, exploitative flytraps for the working poor would have resonated in London, Dublin, Moscow, Johannesburg, or anywhere throughout the 19-century world.

  • To make a grabber they could control, Li’s team attached a piece of a flytrap to a robotic arm.

  • So, Li’s team attached a piece of a flytrap to a robotic arm and used a smartphone app to control the trap.

  • The network is a flytrap for cranks, conspiracy theorists, anti-Semites, and defenders of authoritarianism.

  • Don Draper versus a guy who became famous for playing Venus Flytrap on WKRP in Cincinnati?

  • Along the edge of the mask is a fringe of inward-pointing spines like those which edge the leaf margins of a venus flytrap.

  • I never knew one of them to claim less than that for a patent flytrap or an improved sausage stuffer.

  • Come along, don't stand there with your mouth open like a flytrap.

  • The mouth opened like a flytrap; the eyes were small and intensely guileless.

  • The Hodge flytrap fitted to the windows of dairy barns is a useful means of destroying stable flies.