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N-COUNT
鉤;吊鉤;掛鉤
A hook is a bent piece of metal or plastic that is used for catching or holding things, or for hanging things up.
例句
One of his jackets hung from a hook.
他的一件夾克衫掛在衣鉤上。
...curtain hooks...
窗簾掛鉤
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V-ERG
（用鉤）吊住，掛住，固定
If you hook one thing to another, you attach it there using a hook. If something hooks somewhere, it can be hooked there.
例句
Paul hooked his tractor to the car and pulled it to safety.
保羅把自己的拖拉機掛在汽車上，然后把它拉到了安全的地方。
...one of those can openers that hooked onto the wall.
那些掛在墻上的開罐器中的一個
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VERB
（用手臂、腿或腳）鉤住，繞住
If you hook your arm, leg, or foot round an object, you place it like a hook round the object in order to move it or hold it.
例句
She latched on to his arm, hooking her other arm around a tree...
她拽住他的胳膊不放，另一只胳膊抱緊一棵樹。
I hooked my left arm over the side of the dinghy.
我用左臂鉤住小劃艇的船舷。
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VERB
釣（魚）
If you hook a fish, you catch it with a hook on the end of a line.
例句
At the first cast I hooked a huge fish.
第一次拋下釣線，我就釣了一條大魚。
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N-COUNT
（通常指拳擊運動中的）鉤拳
A hook is a short sharp blow with your fist that you make with your elbow bent, usually in a boxing match.
例句
Lewis desperately needs to keep clear of Ruddock's big left hook.
劉易斯無論如何得躲開拉多克凌厲的左鉤拳才行。
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V-ERG
（使）參與;（使）涉足
If you are hooked into something, or hook into something, you get involved with it.
例句
I'm guessing again now because I'm not hooked into the political circles...
我現在又是在猜測了，因為我沒有涉足政界。
Eager to hook into a career but can't find one right for you?
急于干一番事業，但又找不到適合自己的？
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VERB
連接到（因特網）;上（網）
If you hook into the Internet, you make a connection with the Internet on a particular occasion so that you can use it.
例句
...an interactive media tent where people will be able to hook into the internet.
人們可以上網的互動式媒體帳篷區
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PHRASE
脫離困境;脫身
If someone gets off the hook or is let off the hook, they manage to get out of the awkward or unpleasant situation that they are in.
例句
Government officials accused of bribery and corruption get off the hook with monotonous regularity...
被指控貪污受賄的政府官員無一例外總能脫身。
His opponents have no intention of letting him off the hook until he agrees to leave office immediately.
在他同意馬上離職之前，他的對手不打算放過他。
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PHRASE
摘下聽筒（不讓電話響）
If you take a phone off the hook, you take the receiver off the part that it normally rests on, so that the phone will not ring.
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PHRASE
（電話）響個不停
If your phone is ringing off the hook, so many people are trying to telephone you that it is ringing constantly.
例句
Since war broke out, the phones at donation centers have been ringing off the hook.
自從戰爭爆發以來，捐贈中心的電話就一直響個不停。
Noun
1. a catch for locking a door
2. a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
3. anything that serves as an enticement
4. a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
5. a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
6. a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer;
"he tooks lessons to cure his hooking"7. a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
8. a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
Verb
1. fasten with a hook
2. rip off; ask an unreasonable price
3. make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle;
"She sat there crocheting all day"4. hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
5. take by theft;
"Someone snitched my wallet!"6. make off with belongings of others
7. hit with a hook;
"His opponent hooked him badly"8. catch with a hook;
"hook a fish"9. to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
10. secure with the foot;
"hook the ball"11. entice and trap;
"The car salesman had snared three potential customers"12. approach with an offer of sexual favors;
"he was solicited by a prostitute""The young man was caught soliciting in the park"