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，成為別人為非作歹的工具。
• Pictured above, the end of the Cat's Paw nebula was imaged from Mayall 4-Meter Telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona, USA.
  上面這張貓掌星云末端的影像是由美國亞利桑那州基特峰國家天文臺上的4米口徑馬亞望遠(yuǎn)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.
  貓掌星云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云里誕生的恒星具有近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(xué)

• 貓掌風(fēng) (一種小區(qū)域微風(fēng))

交通運輸工程

• 貓爪結(jié)(用于套滑車) [亦作catspaw]