snag

英 [snæg] 美[snæɡ]

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TEM8IELTS低频词扩展词汇

复数: snags;第三人称单数: snags;过去式: snagged;过去分词: snagged;现在分词: snagging;

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2. 谐音“死拦哥”。

snag 树桩，暗桩，潜在问题，困难，障碍，被勾住，被挂住

来自古诺斯语 snagi,晾衣架，挂衣钩。引申词义树桩，树枝，后用于指河道中被河水浸没的树桩，暗桩，因而引申比喻义潜在问题，困难，障碍，引申词义被勾住，被挂住等。

snag (n.): 1570s, "stump of a tree, branch," of Scandinavian origin, compare Old Norse snagi "clothes peg," snaga "a kind of ax," snag-hyrndr "snag-cornered, with sharp points." The ground sense seems to be "a sharp protuberance." The meaning "sharp or jagged projection" is first recorded 1580s; especially "tree or branch in water and partly near the surface, so as to be dangerous to navigation" (1807). The figurative meaning "obstacle, impediment" is from 1829.
snag (v.): "be caught on an impediment," 1807, from snag (n.). Originally in American English, often in reference to steamboats caught on branches and stumps lodged in riverbeds. Of fabric, from 1967. The transitive meaning "to catch, steal, pick up" is U.S. colloquial, attested from 1895. Related: Snagged; snagging.

1. There is just one small snag—where is the money coming from?: 只有一个小问题—钱从哪儿来？

3. It is to be expected that an experiment will sometimes run into a snag at first.: 开始试验时有时不很顺手,也是很自然的.

4. The school deals exclusively with children of high academic ability. There is a snag though, it costs £9,600 a year.: 这所学校只招收学习能力强的孩子，不过还有个小问题——它每年的学费高达9,600英镑。

5. A police clampdown on car thieves hit a snag when villains stole one of their cars.: 警方打击偷车贼的行动遭遇了一点小挫折：匪徒偷走了一辆警车。