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booby trap

2023年10月25日 | 英単語
Reader's Digest 9月号の記事 "Next Stop the After Life" からの引用です。

Ancient Egypt
We know more about how the ancient Egyptians died than about how they lived. Duat, their underworld, was full of obstacles, which could be navigated successfully only with the protective spells found in the Egyptians' famous Book of the Dead. Those obstacles comprise a full Indiana Jones temple of doom: There's a lake of fire torture chambers and even booby traps. But for the adventurous traveler, the iron walls and turquoise trees of Duat make for an afterlife unlike any other.

"booby traps" の意味を調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: a hidden bomb that explodes when the object that it is connected to is touched: Nobody went near the abandoned car in case it was a booby trap.
・Collins Dictionary: A booby-trap is something such as a bomb which is hidden or disguised and which causes death or injury when it is touched.: Police were checking the area for booby traps.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: something dangerous, especially a bomb, that is hidden inside somewhere that looks safe: The bodyguard was killed while checking the president's car for booby traps.

地雷("land mine")も "booby traps" の一種かな。

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