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单词 rattling trap
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rattling trap
rattling trap n. Obsolete a piece of scientific apparatus, regarded as trivial, unnecessary, or annoying (usually in plural); cf. rattletrap n. 1.
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1732 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 1733 (verso title page) My Wife..has threatned more than once to burn all my Books and Rattling-Traps (as she calls my Instruments).
1760 G. A. Stevens Hist. Tom Fool II. xvii. 149 Susan bounced into the Room, over the Machine she tumbled, crash!.. Up she soon scrambled, and ran at Mr. Rector open-fisted; crying, Curse your Rattling Traps.
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