ensnared

英 [ɪnˈsneəd]

美 [ɪnˈsnerd]

v.  使入陷阱(或圈套、困境)
ensnare的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使陷入圈套；使入陷阱
  If youensnaresomeone, you gain power over them, especially by using dishonest or deceitful methods.
  1. Feminism is simply another device to ensnare women...
     女权主义只是使女性陷入圈套的另一种手段。
  2. We find ourselves ensnared in employment acts which do not help resolve industrial disputes.
     我们发现自己陷入了雇佣法案的圈套之中，因为它们并不能帮助解决劳资争端。
• VERB （用陷阱）诱捕，捕获
  If an animalis ensnared, it is caught in a trap.
  1. The spider must wait for prey to be ensnared on its web.
     蜘蛛必须等待猎物被它的蛛网困住。

双语例句

• To be sure, most corporate executives express concern at the prospect of a darkening economic picture and companies directly affected by the subprime meltdown and the decline in consumer confidence, notably banks and housebuilders, are already ensnared in their own mini-recessions.
  诚然，多数企业界高管都对趋于黯淡的经济前景表示忧虑那些直接受到次贷危机及消费者信心下降影响的公司，尤其是银行和房屋建筑商们，都已身陷小范围的衰退之中。
• Cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled.
  突然导致或突然被捕捉，诱捕，或被纠缠。
• Mr. Tucker was ensnared last week in the scandal.
  塔克是在上周卷入这起丑闻的。
• Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
  其上的金银，你不可贪图，也不可收取，免得你因此陷入网罗。这原是耶和华你神所憎恶的。
• Others see it as punishment for Mr Wang for failing to prevent China Mobile becoming ensnared in a series of corruption scandals since 2009.
  还有一些人认为，自2009年以来，中国移动连连卷入腐败丑闻，这次变动是对王建宙未能阻止这种局面的处罚。
• Once thus ensnared, unless the protecting hand of God snatch him thence, all is over, and his struggles but tend to hasten his destruction.
  一旦陷进去，除非是上帝之手把他从那里拉出来，否则就一切都完了，他的挣扎只会加速他的毁灭。
• It was a sad fairy story about a prince who was ensnared by a beautiful but evil witch.
  那是一个悲惨的童话，说的是一个王子被一个美貌却恶毒的巫婆陷害的故事。
• He then speculated further that a second goal of the criminal investigation that has ensnared him was to force Russia to give up the World Cup, which it is hosting in 2018.
  他又进一步推测，导致他被捕的这次刑事调查的第二个目的是逼迫俄罗斯放弃世界杯。俄罗斯将主办2018年的世界杯。
• An unwary space voyager ensnared by a black hole will never be seen to enter it, but only to become frozen to its surface.
  永远不会看到，被黑洞捕捉住的粗心的宇宙旅行者进入黑洞，而只是看见他被冻结在黑洞的表面上。
• As the credit card business boomed in recent years, too many lenders added tricks and traps that have ensnared and infuriated millions of their customers.
  近几年信用卡业务迅猛增长，太多的放贷机构在办理该类业务时附加了隐形条款和机关陷阱，无数客户受骗上当并不堪其辱。