英和和英

動詞

understand trap (三人称単数 現在形 understands trap, 現在分詞 understanding trap, 過去形および過去分詞形 understood trap)

1. (slang, obsolete) To be conscious of any trickery; to be alert to one's own interests, to know what's going on.
   • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview 2001, p. 345:

     ‘Yes! yes!’ said Mr Doughty, another tradesman, ‘we understand trap, and so does our good neighbour.’

   • 1809, Washington Irving, A History of New York:

     Chapter III: Of Peter Stuyvesant's expedition into the East Country, showing that though an old bird, he did not understand trap.