1·But I never did anything intentionally to displease him; I liked the job too well to put a noose around my neck.
不过我从来没有有意做什么事情使他不快，我大喜欢这份工作了，绝不会把绞索往自己脖子上套。
2·Gradually, the noose would tighten around the colonel, especially as the anti-Qaddafi east holds most of Libya's oil.
渐渐地，周围的绞索将收紧上校，尤其是在反卡扎菲的利比亚东部的大部分石油。
3·He had fashioned a noose out of our dog Grouper's leash.
他用我们的狗古鲁普的皮带做了绞索。
4·The Noose, a historical symbol of racial hatred, has made many reappearances recently.
在美国历史上象征着种族仇恨的绞索，最近又在美国各地多次出现。
5·Thee United States and China may well be on the road to war - and with a noose of US bases now encircling the world's newest superpower, nuclear war is not only imaginable but a nightmarish prospect.
美国和中国可能会在战争—路和美国基地现在绞索环绕世界的新的超级大国，核战争不仅是可能的而且一个可怕的前景。
1·The rocking made him seasick, and the noose becoming tighter and tighter, choked him.
摇晃使他头昏脑涨，套索越来越紧，令他窒息。
2·They tied Pinocchio's hands behind his shoulders and slipped the noose around his neck.
他们把皮诺乔的手绑在肩膀后面，把套索套在他的脖子上。
3·His debts were a noose around his neck.
债务就像套在他脖子上的一条套索。
—— 《牛津词典》
4·But the noose around his neck may be tightening, mainly for economic reasons.
但是主要是出于经济上的原因，他脖子上的套索正在被拉紧。
5·An economic noose is slowly tightening around Laurent Gbagbo's neck.
经济套索正在缓慢地缠紧洛朗•巴博的脖子。
1·Stepping on a chairthat wobbled under him, he would knot a noose round his scrawny neck, test it, yank it, gyrate his neck like a pigeon and step out into the void.
他会跳上一把摇摇晃晃的椅子，在瘦骨嶙峋的脖子上打上一个绳套，先试一下，然后猛地一拉，把脖子扭得象一只鸽子，接着跳下椅子悬在半空中。
2·You asked us to say, 'We have caught the sniper like a duck in a noose. '
你们希望听到我们说：'我们抓获那个杀手就像抓住绳套里的鸭子一样。'。