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squirrel cage

/skwur-uhl keyj, skwuhr-uhl/US // ˈskwɜr əl ˌkeɪdʒ, ˈskwʌr əl //

松鼠笼,松鼠笼子,松鼠籠,鼠笼

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : hamster wheel.
    • : a cage containing a hamster wheel.

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Examples

  • But you wonder how even the sane keep from losing their minds when you step into a cell—or rather a cage—at Graterford.

  • It is empty, the door swung open—perhaps the bird has already flown, or perhaps the cage awaits its next inhabitant.

  • In fact, in 2000 a 9.0-rated Action Comics No.1 owned by Nicolas Cage was stolen from his house.

  • In the U.S, Allan Kaprow, an artist pupil of John Cage, came up with the word “Happening” in 1957.

  • When I first heard about the sport, I assumed that it was a “no holds barred” cage match where pretty much anything goes.

  • "My name is Slicko," answered the lively little girl squirrel, as she jumped about.

  • Squinty looked up in the tree, and there he saw a lovely little girl squirrel, frisking about on the branches.

  • So Hettie put the chicken in a cage, with some wool to cover it, and fed it several times every day, till it came to know her.

  • The 'cage' was simply an arrangement for 'straiter custody,' though but rarely judged necessary in the case of ladies.

  • Across the middle of the cage a stout barricade has been erected, and behind the barricade sits the Master, pale but defiant.