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牢笼

láo lóng

2-character word Traditional 牢籠

What 牢笼 means

1. cage
2. trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals)
3. fig. bonds (of wrong ideas)
4. shackles (of past misconceptions)
5. to trap
6. to shackle

The characters in 牢笼

• 牢láo(literary) pen; fold (for livestock); prison; jail; firm; secure; fast
• 笼lóngenclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc; cage; basket; steamer basket

Example sentences

• 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 huòdé zìyóu, jiūjìng yìwèizhe shénme? Nándào jiù shì cóng yī gè láolóng lǐ qiǎomiào de táo chūlái, qíshí zhǐ shì zhìshēn yú lìng yī gè gèng dà de láolóng.
  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.
• 人获得自由，究竟意味着什幺？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。
  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.

Words containing 牢笼

• 身陷牢笼shēn xiàn láo lóngfallen into a trap
• 陷入牢笼xiàn rù láo lóngto fall into a trap; ensnared