cat's paw

基本解釋

The vast Cat's Paw Nebula in Scorpius.
天蠍座裡巨大的貓爪星雲(yún)。
She's actually a cat's paw for her boyfriend, poor girl.
實(shí)際上她衹是她男朋友的工具而已，可憐的孩子。
Resembling a huge paw print, the Cat's Paw Nebula is a star-formation region, with stars of close to 10 solar masses produced there in the past several million years.
貓掌星雲(yún)看起來(lái)就像一個(gè)巨大的爪印，它是恒星形成區(qū)域，近幾百萬(wàn)年間在貓掌星雲(yún)裡誕生的恒星具有近10個(gè)太陽(yáng)的質(zhì)量。

But Hizbullah, the Lebanese guerrilla group that is widely seen as a Syrian cat's paw, has pointedly raised the heat on Israel's northern border.
ECONOMIST: But there is little they can do
There's angel step, cat's paw, peanut shell and flower grain.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, he acted as a cat's-paw for his boss, Punch Sulzberger, when the publisher got rid of his own more liberal cousin, John Oakes, as editor of the editorial page.
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