noose的意思|noose的解释-里氏词典

noose [nu:s]

n. 套索, 束缚, 陷阱

vt. 用套索捉

noose

[ noun ]

a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose

<noun.artifact>

a loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot; it binds tighter as the cord or rope is pulled

<noun.artifact>

[ verb ]

make a noose in or of

<verb.creation>

secure with a noose

<verb.contact>

Noose \Noose\, n. [Prob. fr. OF. nous, nom. sing. or acc. pl. of
nou knot, F. n[oe]ud, L. nodus. Cf. {Node}.]
A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it
is drawn.

Noose \Noose\ (n[=oo]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Noosed}
(n[=oo]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Noosing}.]
To tie in a noose; to catch in a noose; to entrap; to
insnare.

"What we saw in 1988 was a tightening of the noose around the necks of some of the more heavily indebted farmers," explained Neil Harl, an Iowa State University economics professor.
"Other countries would give a Palestinian terrorist who killed a baby the chair, the noose or life behind bars.
As Moscow tries to save Saddam by maneuvering for a cease-fire that might enable him to escape the noose, there are compelling reasons for seeing to it that he does not remain in power.
They would ingratiate themselves with travelers, then strangle them with a noose or handkerchief to plunder their belongings.
But as he tries to wriggle out of Bush's economic noose, Saddam is not above engaging in diplomacy with the very people in Tehran who only a few years ago sought to overthrow him.
On July 31, a videotape of Higgins hanging from a noose was released in Lebanon, and a pro-Iranian Shiite faction claimed responsibility for the death of the U.S. hostage.
"If the United Nations is treated as an angel, then we must remember that the halo that slips 10 inches is a noose," he said at a luncheon of the U.N. Correspondents Association on Monday.
The rebels, who will continue to receive U.S. arms through Pakistan, plan to keep "tightening the noose" around Kabul and other urban centers, using a "siege magnified" strategy, the official said..
Indeed, Haryana's industrial belt is like a noose round the capital.
Nor did police disperse the mob that gathered Sunday outside a house in Johannesburg's Mayfair West district, draped a noose over a wall, and shouted threats at the Indian who planned to move his family into the white neighborhood.
His government is expected to seek a dialogue which would enable Algeria to loosen the noose of the country's Dollars 26bn foreign debt.
This would ease nationalists' charges about betraying their kith and kin in Bosnia. The contact group - Russia, the US, Germany, France and the UK - is hoping that Mr Milosevic will tighten the noose round the Bosnian Serbs.
A defense official said one proposal includes drawing a "much, much tighter noose" around Colombia with a virtual air and sea blockade.
And Gombo's own expertise with the titular 'urga', a hunting device comprising a long pole with an adjustable noose. How do we know that the word 'urga' and its definition have not stolen in from a Call My Bluff programme?
The Soviets tightened their economic noose on Lithuania Thursday by shutting off more than 80 percent of its gas supply following a complete cutoff of oil the previous night.
Presumably, the US sees itself as tightening the economic noose around Castro's neck, creating the conditions for his overthrow.
It is a noose that they are tightening.
Rakowski said the $39 billion foreign debt was "like a noose 'round our necks," and appealed for Western help, the official said. "The prime minister did not respond," he said.
In "a parody of myself," he says, he began another speech by donning an executioner's hood and dangling a noose over the podium.
His injury is called a "hangman's fracture" because that is where a noose hits in a hanging.
Mr. Brown called the appeals court ruling "a legal noose that left us with no room to move" and charged that Bank of New England had blocked the restructuring effort by seeking special treatment.
A neck noose of padlocked chains was attached to a ring at the top of the box, and his hands were chained to the sides by two pairs of handcuffs.

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