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单词 rattle someone's cage
释义

cage /kāj/

noun
  1. A compartment or enclosure, usu made from bars and wires, for confining captive animals and birds
  2. A prison
  3. A frame with a platform or platforms used in hoisting in a vertical shaft, eg in a mine or lift
  4. A framework that encloses, protects or supports
  5. Any structure resembling a cage in function
  6. A structure of steel supports and netting to protect garden fruit and vegetables from birds
  7. A squirrel's nest (dialect)
  8. A goal, consisting of a frame with a net attached, as in ice hockey
  9. An enclosed area used for batting practice (baseball)
transitive verb (cagˈing; caged)

To imprison in a cage

ORIGIN: Fr, from L cavea a hollow place

caged adjective

Confined

cageˈling noun

A bird that is or has been kept in a cage

cageˈ-bird noun

A bird of a kind habitually kept in a cage

cageˈ-cup noun

A kind of glass bowl of late Roman times, with a filigree-type glass decoration attached to the bowl by tiny struts (also diatrēˈtum)

cage fighter noun

cage fighting noun

A form of ultimate fighting (qv under ultimate) in which the opponents fight inside a wire enclosure

cageˈwork noun

Open-work like the bars of a cage

cage in (usu figurative)

To imprison

rattle someone's (or the) cage (informal)

To stir (someone) up, provoke (someone's) anger or irritation

rattle /ratˈl/

intransitive verb
  1. To make a quick succession or alternation of short hard sounds
  2. To move along rapidly making such a sound
  3. To chatter briskly and emptily
transitive verb
  1. To cause to rattle
  2. To fluster, disconcert or irritate (informal)
  3. To assail with rattling (Shakespeare)
  4. To utter glibly, as by rote (often with off)
  5. To perform or push through to completion in a rapid, perfunctory or noisy manner
  6. To scold loudly (obsolete)
noun
  1. An instrument or toy producing a rattling sound when shaken
  2. An instrument for making a whirring noise, formerly used by watchmen
  3. A similar device used at festive gatherings
  4. A dice-box (old slang)
  5. A plant whose seeds rattle in the capsule, applied to two scrophulaceous plants, yellow rattle or cock's-comb (Rhinanthus crista-galli) and red rattle or marsh lousewort (Pedicularis palustris)
  6. The rings of a rattlesnake's tail
  7. A vivacious prattler
  8. A spell of lively chattering
  9. The sound of rattling
  10. The crackling of paper
  11. A sound in the throat of a dying person (also death rattle)
  12. Racket
ORIGIN: ME ratelen; cf Ger rasseln, Du ratelen to rattle; connection with OE plant names hratele, hrætelwyrt is questioned

rattˈler noun

  1. A rattle
  2. A coach (old slang)
  3. A rattlesnake (informal)
  4. A telling blow (informal)
  5. An excellent specimen of the kind (informal)

rattˈling noun adjective

  1. Making a rattle
  2. Smart, lively
  3. Strikingly good (informal)
adverb

Strikingly

rattˈly adjective (rattˈlier; rattˈliest)

  1. Making a rattling noise
  2. Inclined to rattle

rattˈlebag noun

  1. A rattle or rattling apparatus
  2. A person who causes commotion (Scot)

rattˈlebrain, rattˈlehead or rattˈlepate noun

A shallow, voluble, volatile person

rattˈle-brained, rattˈle-headed or rattˈle-pated adjective

rattˈlesnake noun

A venomous American pit-viper (genus Crotalus) with rattling horny rings on the end of its tail

rattˈletrap noun (informal)

  1. A contemptuous name for any apparatus, equipment, finery, bric-à-brac
  2. A rickety vehicle
  3. The mouth

rattle someone's cage (informal)

To stir someone up to anger or excitement
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