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flypaper

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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fly·pa·per /ˈflaɪˌpeɪpə $ -ər/ noun [countable, uncountable]  DHpaper covered with a sticky substance that is hung up in a room in order to catch flies 粘蝇纸
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flypaperOr maybe they were sticky, like flypaper.Other mechanisms for trapping prey have similarly descriptive names: snap, suction, lobster pot, flypaper, loop.It was like trying to shake flypaper.Has public choice theory satisfactorily explained the flypaper effect?
fly·pa·per nounChineseSyllable
a substance is up with hung Corpus that sticky covered paper


flypaper
flypaper /ˈflaɪˌpeɪpə $ -ər/ noun [uncountable and countable]
paper covered with a sticky substance that is hung up in a room in order to catch flies


fly·paperBrE /ˈflaɪpeɪpə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈflaɪpeɪpər/ 🔊 noun [countable, uncountable] a strip of sticky paper that you hang in a room to catch flies 捕蝇纸