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nab v.抓住或逮捕；获取 (1) 小偷被警察抓住了。(2) 警察官员时常使用指纹成功地去逮捕罪犯。(3) 美国选手科丽·科格德尔射中目标夺得第三。(4) 排队等车的人们往往会一哄而上,不顾一切地争抢空座位。 You nab when you apprehend a bad guy, or when you suddenly grab something: "Hey, you can't just nab a slice of pizza off my plate!" It's most common to use nab when a criminal is caught, as when the FBI nabs a suspected terrorist or an officer nabs a would-be graffiti artist. Nab probably came from an earlier word, nap, "to seize or catch," which is now obsolete except in the word kidnap.

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英 [næb] 美 [næb] (1) The thief was nabbed by the police.(2) Police officers often use fingerprints successfully to nab criminals.(3) American Corey Cogdell hit the target to nab third place.(4) Loading queues often disintegrate into a Hobbesian struggle to nab untaken seats. When you nab someone, you catch the person in the act of doing something wrong. A police officer, for example, might say that she loves to nab shoplifters. 1[VERB 动词]抓住；逮捕 If people in authority such as the police nab someone who they think has done something wrong, they catch them or arrest them.   [V n]  [get V-ed]  [INFORMAL 非正式]He killed 12 people before the authorities finally nabbed him...他杀了12人后才最终被当局抓获。Soon he was back in the armed robbery business. Again, he got nabbed.他不久又再次持械抢劫，又一次被逮捕。

英语单词	nab
英美音标	英 [næb] 美 [næb]
中文释义	v.抓住或逮捕；获取
英语例句	(1) The thief was nabbed by the police. (2) Police officers often use fingerprints successfully to nab criminals. (3) American Corey Cogdell hit the target to nab third place. (4) Loading queues often disintegrate into a Hobbesian struggle to nab untaken seats.
中文例句	(1) 小偷被警察抓住了。 (2) 警察官员时常使用指纹成功地去逮捕罪犯。 (3) 美国选手科丽·科格德尔射中目标夺得第三。 (4) 排队等车的人们往往会一哄而上,不顾一切地争抢空座位。
vocabulary简明	When you nab someone, you catch the person in the act of doing something wrong. A police officer, for example, might say that she loves to nab shoplifters.
vocabulary扩展	You nab when you apprehend a bad guy, or when you suddenly grab something: "Hey, you can't just nab a slice of pizza off my plate!" It's most common to use nab when a criminal is caught, as when the FBI nabs a suspected terrorist or an officer nabs a would-be graffiti artist. Nab probably came from an earlier word, nap, "to seize or catch," which is now obsolete except in the word kidnap.
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]抓住；逮捕 If people in authority such as the police nab someone who they think has done something wrong, they catch them or arrest them. [V n] [get V-ed] [INFORMAL 非正式] He killed 12 people before the authorities finally nabbed him... 他杀了12人后才最终被当局抓获。 Soon he was back in the armed robbery business. Again, he got nabbed. 他不久又再次持械抢劫，又一次被逮捕。

Nab Police Catch People 英 Næb] 美 Næb V.抓住或逮捕；获取