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小词详解 | gag
gag 英 [ɡæɡ] 美 [ɡæɡ]
Cases rarely go to court and, when they are settled instead, executives are hit with gagging orders.
案件很少进入法庭审理,而一旦以和解告终,相关高管又会被禁言。
——《经济学人》And it’s quite possible that this rather serious emphasis, all those years ago, alerted the casting director that this 9-year-old girl should play Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, rather than the umpteen thousand others who were gagging, swooning, dying to do so.
很有可能,多年前,正是她脸上这种近似严肃的鲜明轮廓提醒了选角导演:这个9岁的女孩应该在《哈利·波特》系列电影里扮演赫敏·格兰杰,而不是上千名拼命想扮演这个角色的其他女孩。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 阻止(某人)自由发言或传播信息
人质被绑起来并被用东西塞住了嘴。
The hostages were bound and gagged.
显然媒体已被封了口,因为什么都没有报道。
The media has obviously been gagged because nothing has been reported.
新闻禁刊令
a press gag
她因嘴里充满了血而作呕。
She gagged on the blood that filled her mouth.
这只是逗着玩——我们并未想使任何人不高兴。
It was just a gag─we didn't mean to upset anyone.
In the end, everything is a gag.
最终,一切不过是笑话一场。
muzzle: prevent (a person or group) from expressing their opinions freely muffle: cover or wrap up (a source of sound) to reduce its loudness smother: suppress (a feeling or action)