| 单词 | mantrap |
| 例句 | And it’s called a Mars mantrap as a joke comparing it to the Venus flytraps of the known world.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The comic line spoken by Harry Hawk, “You sockdologizing old mantrap,” was followed by an explosion of laughter from the audience. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z That would scarcely be conceivable in a field as full of mantraps as this. Men from the Ministry by Simon Thurley – review 2013-06-20T10:01:01Z The plot is a thicket of romantic confusion, with a mantrap named Fenisa at the center. From Spain’s Golden Age, a bubbly ‘Betrayed’ 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The love-lorn Lucy, trekking from Wales to see him, falls into a steel mantrap and breaks her leg; though two days later she is fit enough for a spree in Bath. Which is the greatest Jane Austen novel? 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z AT THE start of a 4am shift, gold miners scan their fingerprints and squeeze into tiny “mantrap” turnstiles, designed to prevent thieves from slipping through. South African mining is in crisis 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z “Maybe razor wire and battlements and mantraps besides. Even that isn’t enough to revoke the state’s right to enter.” Gorsuch has ruled for police, and suspects, in crime cases 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z A list of promised specifications included a dedicated power supply from the National Grid and security measures such as mantraps - a vestibule with two set of interlocking doors, rather than anything more brutal. HMRC claws back celebrities' tax profit on empty data centres - BBC News 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The measures include the bulletproof “bandit barriers” for tellers that are common today, metal detectors at entrances and even “mantraps,” vestibules that can trap robbers until the police arrive. A quintessentially American crime declines: Robbing banks doesn’t pay as it used to. 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Security guards, retina scanners and “mantraps,” which keep possible intruders detained until they are apprehended, are just some of the facilities’ defensive mechanisms. Inside the Secret ‘Hotels’ Where the Internet Lives 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Officers say bank personnel activated a device called a “mantrap,” which remotely close the interior and exterior doors of the bank. Police: security device traps bank robber 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z However, as long as no one hunted them or set a mantrap to ensnare them, as is sometimes the case, they probably found something to eat and survived another day. Chimps in Uganda: Resilience 2013-05-19T20:45:00.570Z "I hope it commands support from both sides of the House," Osborne said with a portentous smirk as he sprang his mantrap. Be bold, Labour, and expose Osborne's skivers v strivers lie 2012-12-06T21:00:07Z The room was thick with tobacco smoke, and half-a dozen empty bottles made mantraps on the floor. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z I thought of mantraps and ferocious dogs, and for some minutes I stood before the gates, wondering if it would be safe for me to enter. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z The last item was a mantrap in the form of a book, labelled "Dr. Qualm's Collected Works." The Undying Past In short, no means should be spared to represent an hotel as a sort of inhumane mantrap, which it is impossible to get out of without considerable bleeding. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) She was young, an iridescent mantrap in her brief uniform. The Sensitive Man Granted the opportunity, she could easily conceive herself as dealing very vigorously with the mantrap. Nobody The answer to the acrostic is “mantrap”; the missing rhyme is “mishap.” Marge Askinforit There are two peculiarly mean and unmanly legal mantraps in which this wretched man is tripped up. Eugenics and Other Evils Big hole down there filled up and the bridge that was just a mantrap new floored! The Long Roll The old mantrap has got married at these years! The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One The Major decided, after some consideration, that it meant mantraps; that it meant plotting and snaring; that Miss Tox was digging pitfalls. Dombey and Son Another story is connected with the old “Hind’s Head” at Bracknell, which was another of these mantraps, where many travellers slept to rise no more. English Villages He even laughed when the red-bodiced she-devil laughingly pointed down at the loosened floor-planks in the back room, underneath which mantrap the swish of the throbbing waves could be heard. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story The old sheriff never allows any thing done outside the rules, for he's tighter than a mantrap. Manuel Pereira Did you, says I. That's not for you to say, says I. You never seen me in the mantrap with a married highlander, says I. The likes of her! Ulysses Come, Ana! do not look shocked: you know better than any of us that marriage is a mantrap baited with simulated accomplishments and delusive idealizations. Man and Superman Being caught thus by one foot in Roosevelt's mantrap, he quickly proceeded to be caught by the other. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography Powerful mantraps were set in such a way that any one or anything, ignorant of their positions, coming up to the windows must unavoidably be snared. The Quest of the Sacred Slipper |
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