a hangman's noose
绞索
His debts were a noose around his neck.
债务就像套在他脖子上的一条套索。
1.套索;绞索;〈比喻〉(夫妻等的)羁绊,束缚;圈套;绞刑
1.用套索捕捉;处绞刑;绞死;安圈套,诱入圈套
1.a piece of rope that is formed into a circle at one end, so that if you pull the other end the circle becomes smaller. A noose is used for killing someone by hanging them by the neck.; the punishment of being killed by hanging
2.a dangerous situation that is difficult to escape from
1.Father Donovan said nothing. Stared at my eyes. I pulled on the noose.
多诺万神父一言不发，只是瞪住倒车镜里面我的眼睛。我拉紧了鱼线。
2.There was no additional strangulation; the noose about his neck was already suffocating him and kept the water from his lungs.
不会再有第二次绞刑了；脖子上的绞索套已经让他窒息，也阻止了水进入他的肺里。
3.She has another reason for her opposition: in a few weeks a hangman is due to slip a noose around her son's neck.
她还有另外一个理由支持自己反对死刑的意见：再过几个星期，她的儿子将被在脖子上套上绞索，施以绞刑。
4.To say that taxpayers are appalled is not to conclude that the banks could be left to tighten the noose on the nation's economy.
说纳税人惊呆了并非是要得出结论：可以任由银行牵着全国经济的鼻子走。
5.He cites the example of a Nazi guard who forced a boy to put a noose around his friend's neck as "cruelty for its own sake. "
他引用了一例，一个纳粹卫兵仅仅为了“残忍本身的缘故”，强迫一名男孩在自己朋友的脖子上套上绳套。
6.i'm nothing but a singer with my head up in the noose.
我只是一个微不足道的，缚手缚脚的歌者
7.I found a piece of rope, made a noose , slipped it about the kitten's neck.
我找来一根绳子，打了个扣，顺手一撸套上了小猫的脖子。
8.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。
9.As he leaves with his sword, the princess reminds him to be careful, and to bring the noose and the poison.
随身带着他的剑，公主叮咛他凡事小心，并要他带着绳套与毒药。
10.Every act of compliance seems to tighten an imagined noose that the other has around our neck.
每一次服从都仿佛将别人套在我们脖子上的绳子拉紧一次。