"Trap" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 xiàn jǐng pitfall / snare / trap
 quān tào trap / snare / trick
 piàn jú a swindle / a trap / a racket / a scam / CL:場|场[chang3]
 láo lóng cage / trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals) / fig. bonds (of wrong ideas) / shackles (of past misconceptions) / to trap / to shackle
 kēng hài to trap / to frame
 yòu bǔ to lure into a trap / to trap / to capture
 xiàn pitfall / trap / to get stuck / to sink / to cave in / to frame (false charge) / to capture (a city in battle) / to fall (to the enemy) / defect
 jǐng pitfall / trap
 tiān luó dì wǎng inescapable net (idiom) / trap / dragnet
 huò trap
 yǎn to cover / trap
 zhuō bǔ qì trap (for animals etc)
 ěr dí to lure the enemy / to trap
  trap / traprock
 xiā lǒng pot / trap
 xiàn jǐng lǒng pot / trap
 xiàn pitfall / trap (archaic)
 cún shuǐ wān trap (plumbing) / U-bend
 zhòng zhāo to get infected / to fall into sb's trap
 zhòng jì to fall into a trap / taken in by a stratagem / cheated / ripped off
 měi rén jì honey trap / sexual entrapment / CL:條|条[tiao2]
 zì tóu luó wǎng to walk right into the trap
 zuò jiǎn zì fù to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom) / enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising / hoist by his own petard
 shè jú to set a trap
 shā kēng sandbox / jumping pit (athletics) / sand trap, bunker (golf)
 xiàn kēng pitfall / pit as animal trap
 shè quān tào to scam / to set a trap / to set up a scheme to defraud people
 zhào cover / fish trap (basket) / shade
 shàn bamboo fish trap / used in names of places connected with Shantou 汕頭|汕头[Shan4 tou2]
 quán bamboo fish trap
 mí hún zhèn stratagem to trap sb / to bewitch and trap
 tǔ sī zì fù to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom) / enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising / hoist with his own petard
 zào jiǎn zì fù to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom) / enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising / hoist with his own petard
 duàn bamboo fish trap
 yòu xiàn to lure into a trap
 mín animal trap
 zhòng quān tào to fall in a trap
 tào kǒu gòng to trap a suspect into a confession
 dé yú wàng quán lit. catch fish then forget the trap (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3]) / fig. to take help for granted
 lu:3 yóu rè diǎn a hot tourist attraction / a tourist trap
 láng jǐng wolf trap (trou de loup), medieval defensive trap consisting of a concealed pit with sharp spikes
 pí to comb / fine-toothed comb / trap for prawns
 shēn xiàn láo lóng fallen into a trap
 xiàn rù láo lóng to fall into a trap / ensnared
 ěr léi baited trap / booby-trap
 liú dòng xìng xiàn jǐng liquidity trap
 pín qióng xiàn jǐng poverty trap
  madrague / tuna trap
 bǔ wén qì mosquito trap
 yòu shā zhuāng zhì booby trap
 yòu chóng zuò wù trap crop
 lěng jǐng cold trap / desublimer
  cold trap / desublimer
 chén diàn wù bǔ jí qì sediment trap
  quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometer / quadrupole ion trap
  armed trap
  disarmed trap
  trap net
  neutralized trap
 dào cǎi to mine (or harvest, log, trap animals etc) illegally / illegal mining (or logging etc)
 gé yóu chí grease trap
 Xiū xī dǐ dé xiàn jǐng Thucydides trap (theory that war results when a dominant established power fears the rise of a rival power)
 yú lì "fish" battle formation in ancient times: chariots in front, infantry behind / The Fish Enter the Trap (title of Ode 170 in the Shijing)
 lán jīn huáng blue, gold and yellow (BGY), the three methods of manipulation: information control (via media and the Internet), money (bribery etc) and sexual temptation (honey trap etc)
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