CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

牢笼

láolóng

cage

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

cage

trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals)

fig. bonds (of wrong ideas)

shackles (of past misconceptions)

to trap

to shackle

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 牢笼 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 牢笼 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

人获得自由，究竟意味着什么？难道就是从一个牢笼里巧妙地逃出来，其实只是置身于另一个更大的牢笼。rén huò dé zì yóu， jiū jìng yì wèi zhe shén me？ nán dào jiù shì cóng yí gè láo lóng lǐ qiǎo miào dì táo chū lái， qí shí zhǐ shì zhì shēn yú lìng yí gè gèng dà de láo lóng。

What does obtaining freedom really mean? It may seem like cleverly escaping out of a cage, but one just ends up in another bigger cage.

这个世界上有许多看不见的墙和看不见的牢笼。zhè ge shì jiè shàng yǒu xǔ duō kàn bú jiàn de qiáng hé kàn bú jiàn de láo lóng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 牢笼.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 牢笼.

Directly before

的牢笼2
一个牢笼1

Directly after

牢笼里1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 牢笼

What does 牢笼 mean in Chinese?

牢笼 (láolóng) means cage.

How do you pronounce 牢笼?

牢笼 is pronounced láolóng.

Is 牢笼 an HSK word?

牢笼 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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