| 单词 | roping in |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroping in P1. roping in originally U.S. the action of decoying a person into a gambling house; (more generally) the action of ensnaring a person into something or (now more usually) prevailing upon a person to take part in some activity. [After to rope in at rope v.2 Phrasal verbs 1.] ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [noun] > act of entrapping, ensnarement beswiking1340 espying1340 telea1450 mismeaningc1450 trapping?1531 entrapping1564 entangling1574 catcha1586 entrapment1609 ensnarementa1617 ensnaring1660 trepan1665 trepanning1670 crimping1795 roping in1840 entoilment1855 noosing1878 1840 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 15 Sept. 2/4 Henry H. Taylor..went the ‘big figure’ in the ‘roping in’ business. 1846 H. W. Beecher Lectures to Young Men (ed. 2) v. 155 That department of gambling which includes the roping-in of strangers, young men, collecting-clerks, and unsuspecting green-hands, and robbing them. 1878 Proc. 11th Ann. Meeting Free Relig. Assoc. 75 I call such priestly practices nothing more nor less than ecclesiastical ‘roping-in’, worthy of tri-card-monte men or a bunco fraternity. 1882 L. L. Lynch Shadowed by Three xxxviii. 524 Well, I have already told you all that I know concerning the roping in of the girl through the agency of that avaricious old ballet mistress. 1917 Psychoanalytic Rev. 4 42 To be sure, she married him without caring particularly for him, but, even so.., if any ‘roping in’ had occurred he himself had done it. 1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. i. viii. 129 The young men who worked at the Winberg's rainproof factory, and were on their way home, needed no roping in. 2001 Times 7 Nov. ii. 16/6 Thus, the roping-in of Ackroyd and Harvey as artists-in-residence at the museum fits in rather well. < as lemmas |
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