cat's-paw

基本解釋

• n. 受人利用者；被人用作傀儡者；工具；爪牙

英漢例句

雙語例句

• It is easy for him to be used as a cat's paw of evil-doing.
  他很容易就被人利用，成爲別人爲非作歹的工具。
• Pictured above, the end of the Cat's Paw nebula was imaged from Mayall 4-Meter Telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona, USA.
  上麪這張貓掌星雲(yún)末耑的影像是由美國亞利桑那州基特峰國家天文臺上的4米口逕馬亞望遠鏡拍攝的。
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• 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)看起來就像一個巨大的爪印，它是恒星形成區(qū)域，近幾百萬年間在貓掌星雲(yún)裡誕生的恒星具有近10個太陽的質(zhì)量。

權(quán)威例句

• 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.
  ECONOMIST: New York opinion-makers

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詞組短語

短語

• cat 's-paw knot 鋼索栓鉤結(jié)

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英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• a person used by another as a tool dupe

• cat's-paw劍橋字典
• cat's-paw柯林斯字典

專業(yè)釋義

地球科學

• 貓掌風 (一種小區(qū)域微風)

交通運輸工程

• 貓爪結(jié)(用於套滑車) [亦作catspaw]