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

• Europe is ensnared in a debt crisis that threatens the future of its single currency, and the social stability of the European Union.
  欧洲深陷的债务危机，已经到了威胁欧洲单一货币的未来、乃至欧盟社会稳定的地步。
• To capture or hold by or as if by a noose. cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled.
  诱捕用或似乎用绳圈来捕或抓突然导致或突然被捕捉，诱捕，或被纠缠。
• 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。
• 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。
• Wal-Mart would be far from the only large company ensnared by bribery charges under FPCA in the past decade.
  在过去十年里，沃尔玛公司远远不是唯一一家身陷贿赂指控的大型公司。
• Widespread corruption in the health care system, especially involving the prescribing of drugs, is also an issue, and one that has ensnared multinational investors.
  医疗卫生体系普遍存在的腐败行为，尤其是涉及药品处方的腐败行为，也是一个问题。它已经让一些跨国投资者蒙受损失。
• Some athletes became ensnared, including two basketball team co-captains whom the school scratched from its team roster.
  一些运动员被捕，其中两名篮球队队长已经被学校从队伍名册中除名。
• Until, when changce came, it ensnared a new bearer.
  随着命运巧妙的安排，让它蛊惑一个新的持有者。
• 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。
• They wanted to make a formal complaint about their doctor, but ended up ensnared in the complexities of the legal system.
  他们想正式控诉他们的医生，但最后却陷入法律制度的复杂性之中。