snooker

1 William challenged me to a game of snooker but I soon saw him off.

威廉要和我比试一下落袋撞球游戏,但我一下子就将他击败了.

2 It’s Saturday night and every snooker table is taken at the Bhutanese pool hall in Woodside, Queens.

3 In addition to creating the LIV golf tour, the Saudis have bought the Newcastle United soccer team in Britain’s Premier League and hosted Formula One races, horse races with record prize money, and other tournaments and matches, from snooker to boxing and chess.

4 In Moore’s new novel, “Jerusalem,” a gang of four archangels plays billiards for human souls in a dingy snooker hall.

5 He looked like one of those consumptive snooker players on cable.

6 She brought snooker to the Crucible to bring in revenue to do the arts.

7 But everyone else is snookered, and Jimmy, at last, has messages on his answering machine, some from potential clients.

8 Like the smoke in the snooker halls in which any non-high-rise action takes place, racism hangs in the air, just on the verge of becoming a recognised problem.

9 This past week, Fingerlings were out of stock on Walmart’s website, while parents complained that they had been snookered into buying counterfeits from sellers on Amazon and other sites.

10 Mr. Bean grew up with snooker; his policeman father loved it and played the game at his social club in Hull, the northern English town, not far from Sheffield, where the family lived.

11 A young Chinese boy plays snooker in a Hutong, or a traditional alleyway in Beijing, China.

一个中国小男孩在北京胡同里打斯诺克.

12 ...a game of snooker...

一局斯诺克比赛

13 If I'm watching sports, I might watch snooker or darts.

14 Mugs of tea slid across tables like snooker balls.

15 Their immense skill and focus was unmistakable — precisely what worried Mr. Bean when Richard Wilson, an associate director at the Crucible, initially asked him to write a play about snooker.

16 a snooker hall/player/table, etc.

斯诺克厅、斯诺克运动员、斯诺克球桌等

17 I can't believe you managed to snooker me with that story about being an orphan.

18 The next time he picked me up we went from Manchester to London with Chris Evans driving and he had a half-sized snooker table over the seats.

19 Last week, Fingerlings were out of stock on Wal-Mart’s website, while parents complained that they had been snookered into buying counterfeits from sellers on Amazon and other sites.

20 The biggest price—and this theme runs through much of Sheridan’s work—is the one exacted by capitalism and the gentrifiers and financiers who snooker the good people who still work with their hands.

1 阻碍

let stop resistance rubber crossing disturbance wrench traverse obstruction setback interception pullback remora countercheck short-circuit oppilate block resist clog intercept hamper baffle impede obstruct counteract bottleneck embarrass blockade roadblock crimp foreclose stymie forestall encumber occlude jigger stonewall counterwork overslaugh tie by the leg jam up in the way under foot brake blockage inhibition impediment hindrance interfere interrupt dam choke inhibit hinder bunker buffalo derail strangle retard snarl debilitate scupper cumber baulk hog-tie let or hindrance

2 使陷入困境

tree bunker mire

3 上当

trap fox sucker into doing sucker into into doing rise to

4 陷入困境

tree bunker mire up the creek feel the draught catch it up a tree in the cart

5 使落空

disappoint

6 撞球

billiards

7 落空

unsuccessful defeat put the lid on go by the board fall through disappoint go down the tubes go down the tube

8 妨碍

impedimental holding preventive obstructive cloggy stop bar resistance barrier prevention opposition obstacle resistant interference objection disturbance obstruction nuisance trespass roadblock impediment retard embargo retardation pester molestation holdback bafflement trammel remora cumber prevent interfere obstruct interrupt hinder block trap resist oppose violate blanket trash spite forbid choke disturb clog traverse mar snag handicap hamper scotch impede nick thwart penalize embarrass molest balk foreclose hobble stymie heckle encumber occlude interdict stonewall embar entrammel make against put a crimp in lay an embargo on in the way under foot

9 欺骗

funny delusive false cross-up hoky-poky take-in do sell plant string abuse curve twist fraud cheat shaft illusion bob deception lurk fiddle gag delusion cog hoax sham trimming gouge deceit trickery bop wile mace gaff shuck gammon barney bunco eyewash hocus falseness flam hokum legerdemain hanky-panky rinky-dink flimflam chicane flivver jiggery-pokery cooch jugglery chiz hokey-pokey gloze rort swiz hokeypokey cootch job lie shit fool boodle practice ring impose bull grease bitch fudge bamboozle bam have dipsy-doodle kid banter diddle gyp cozen cold-deck yentz illude gazoozle fainaigue make work take short green catch stick cross beat jump burn cream dish screw trim palm hose bucket rim hype mock fox Jew deceive sucker buffalo mislead bunk two-time deacon nick jockey chisel dope fob gull lurch ream jive mystify short-change slicker beguile frig fop double-cross jink gudgeon cully trepan hornswoggle gyppo double-X befool chouse make game of bludge on play the rogue slip one over on put it over on have a game with play the fool with a clean shave run a sandy on on the earhole givethe business string on throw a curve on the fiddle give short change come it play games with management Con falsehood masquerade rip-off duplicity subterfuge skulduggery Legerdemain hocus-pocus put-on double-dealing covin try-on trick Sharp Trim stiff COD spruce circumvent dupe delude weasel entrap humbug hoodwink bilk finagle skank euchre pettifog short-sheet mamaguy verneuk put upon make a fool of play false play a trick on throw dust in eyes sell a bill of goods take for a ride screw over put one over on slip over on do the dirty on cheating falsely deceitfully swindle chicanery deceitfulness skin monkey business dirty fraudulent shenanigans guile artifice funny business snow play dirty lead up the garden path come the raw prawn pull a fast one take advantage of play games fob off on fob off put on wind up take in prey on phoney wrong con sucker into doing sucker into into doing fob off with have on

10 诱惑

bait temptation seduction schmear come-hither attract tempt lure entice seduce allure wile debauch

11 阻挡

block bar stymie hold back stand between

12 处于困境

up the pole

13 挫败

frustrated defeature collapse punishing kybosh put the kibosh on frustrate foil scupper clobber dish defeat spike cruel Scotch repulse checkmate disconcert discomfit break trump sink bring to naught put the mockers on frustration squash confound

14 阻挠

obstructive obstructiveness cross frustrate thwart hindrance prevent defeat sink oppose spike intervene obstruct shackle scuttle stymie nobble throw a monkey wrench into throw a monkey wrench in frustration obstruction bust foil

15 使处于困境

beleaguer

16 使陷于困境

drive a to the wall push a to the wall thrust a to the wall

17 使上当

trap fox sucker into doing sucker into into doing

18 陷于困境

drive a to the wall push a to the wall thrust a to the wall in queer street up against the wall be in it

19 诈骗

have string fraud ramp scam imposition gouge deceit rook mace flanker swindle gaff shuck bilk gyp knavery jiggery-pokery racketeer bounce shark overreach kife beat screw clip bite sharp trim pigeon pluck chisel bunco jink mountebank chicane nobble gyppo goldbrick ready up on the earhole