| 单词 | trap door |
| 释义 | trap door (once / 13922 pages) n While exploring a spooky old house, if you find an opening in the floor covered by a hinged panel, you've discovered a trap door. In mystery novels and movies, trap doors often lead to secret passageways. You can also call a trap door a hatch, and both terms can be used to describe a hinged or sliding doorway in either a floor or a ceiling, like the trap door you pull open in order to get into an attic. A trap door might also lead to a crawl space or a bomb shelter beneath a house. The earliest use of trap door was recorded in the fourteenth century. WORD FAMILYtrap door: trap doors USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s as if you’d popped through a trap door into a secret clubhouse. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) “I always had to have a trap door in the third verse through which everything fell into misery,” he said. The New Yorker(Nov 30, 2016) Next to the fridge is a trap door to another hideout, to be used in case Batista’s forces had discovered the command center. Seattle Times(Nov 29, 2016) n a hinged or sliding door in a floor or ceiling Hyper door a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle |
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