catch out

英 [kætʃ aʊt]

美 [kætʃ aʊt]

使原形毕露; 抓住…的短处

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 使原形毕露;抓住…的短处
  Tocatchsomeoneoutmeans to cause them to make a mistake that reveals that they are lying about something, do not know something, or cannot do something.
  1. Detectives followed him for months hoping to catch him out in some deception...
     侦探们跟踪了他几个月，希望能当场抓住他行骗。
  2. He did not like to be caught out on details...
     他不喜欢在细节上被人抓住把柄。
  3. The government has been caught out by the speed of events.
     事情发展之迅速暴露了政府的无能。

英英释义

verb

• trap
  1. He was caught out
  2. She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks
  Synonym:find out

双语例句

• He did not like to be caught out on details
  他不喜欢在细节上被人抓住把柄。
• Men can never catch women checking out other men; women will always catch men checking out other women.
  男人永远不会察觉女人注视着其他男人，而女人总能察觉男人注视着其他女人。
• To take a trivial instance: how scornful we are when we catch someone out telling a lie;
  举一个小实例：当我们发现某个人在说谎时，我们是多么的不屑；
• The third time I figured it must be the cat, and decided to catch him out, so set the camera up and left it going all day, 'he wrote.
  第三次我猜想准是猫咪干的，并且决定要抓它现形。所有我就架好了摄像机，让它一整天都在自动摄影。
• Detectives followed him for months hoping to catch him out in some deception
  侦探们跟踪了他几个月，希望能当场抓住他行骗。
• Fishing for flashcards use a fishing pole with a magnet and try to catch the flashcard called out by the teacher.
  小朋友们把老师说出来的单词或短语用钓鱼杆把相应的图片钓起来。
• To take a trivial instance: how scornful we are when we catch someone out telling a lie; but who can say that he has never told not one, but a hundred?
  举一个小例子来说：当觉察到别人说谎时，我们是多么地蔑视他啊！但是，谁能够说自从未说过谎？可能还不止一百次呢。
• Every third Wednesday, Michael Box gets up at3:30 in the morning to catch a flight out of Perth.
  每月的第三个周三，迈克尔.伯克思都要在凌晨3：30起床，赶飞机离开珀斯。
• The examiner will try to catch you out, so stay calm and think carefully before you speak. As you view pages on the Web, you'll find information that you'd like to save for future reference or share with other people.
  主考人员想找出你的错误，所以你要保持冷静，考虑好再讲。查看网页时，会找到想保存以备将来参考或与他人共享的信息。
• The Characteristics and the trend of Zhejiang ocean fishery were forecasted by gray model which of fishing catch was worked out on fishing gears, and some views of adjusting Zhejiang ocean fishing structure were presented on the basis of these results in this paper.
  用灰色模型理论分析海洋捕捞产量，按渔具划分建立数值模型并预测浙江省捕捞业发展的特性与趋势，依据该数值模型所作的评估结果，提出了对浙江省海洋捕捞作业结构的调整意见。