The lawyer's apparently innocent question was designed to catch the witness off (his) guard.
律师看似不经意的问题是为了使证人措手不及。
She thumbed off the safety catch of her pistol.
她用拇指打开了手枪的保险栓。
Summer is a time to relax, regroup and catch up on all those things you've been putting off all year.
夏天是休养整顿、并处理一年中积压事务的时候。
When people catch sharks, they cut off their fins and throw the sharks back into the ocean.
当人们捕捉鲨鱼时，他们切下鲨鱼的鳍，然后把鲨鱼扔回大海。
"I was turning the page to get ready for the next page, but the draft wind from the turn caused the spare pages to fall off the stand," Mr. Titterton said, "Luckily I was able to catch them and put them back."
蒂特顿先生说：“有一次，我在翻着一页，准备到下一页，但翻页带来的风导致剩下的乐谱从架子上掉了下来，但所幸的是，我接住了它们，并将它们放了回去。”
When the bear puts his tail into the water through a hole in the ice, to try and catch a fish, the ice freezes around it, and he ends up pulling his tail off.
当熊把尾巴放到了湖面上的冰洞里面去钓鱼的时候，水在熊尾巴周围结冰了。熊使劲儿往外拔它的尾巴，结果把尾巴拔掉了。
In order to catch the train in time, he polished off two bowls of rice in 5 minutes.
为了及时赶上火车，他在5分钟内就把两碗饭狼吞虎咽地吃光了。
When you knock off work, you'll be just in time to catch that bus.
你下班时坐这趟车正好。
A duck flies off in alarm as an osprey swoops in to catch its lunch.
鱼鹰猛扑到池塘抓鱼作午餐的时候惊起了一只鸭子。
If we can't get off to a good start at Bali, we may never catch up.
如果我们在巴厘岛这一会谈上没有一个好的开端的话，我们可能永远无法赶上去。
Once you catch yourself, you can say, "Okay, I know all I'm doing is going around in circles." So I'm getting off this bus.
当你把自己抓现行时，你可以说：“好吧，我知道我所做的一切只是在兜圈子。”
So it's not just, you can swing by 11:04 and grab a copy and go off and catch some more sleep.
对么？所以你不能打酱油到11：,抓一份笔记拷贝然后离开睡个回笼觉。
The catch is that because low-frequency waves can travel great distances, when they do bounce off cavities or objects underground, they often end up far from the detection equipment at the surface.
捕捉过程是这样的，因为低频波可以传输到更远的距离，当它们遇到地下的空穴或其他物体反射回来的时候，已经距地面的接收装置很远了。
Your eye can catch the words in about a 1″ radius, so this can shave off a bit of reading time.
因为通常你的眼睛可以覆盖1弧度范围内的文字，这样做可以为你节省一些时间。
WHEN John Cabot dropped anchor off the coast of Newfoundland in 1497, his crew reported that they needed only to dip a bucket into the water to catch cod.
1497年，当约翰·卡博特的船在纽芬兰岛海岸靠岸时，据他的船员称，他们只需把一个水桶沉入海里就能捞到鳕鱼了。
The hypnotised people, which Trevor called Sicklies, for he had read that somewhere in an encyclopedia, they ran off and stole every person they could catch. The school was in chaos.
那些被催眠的人——特雷福管他们叫“病者”，这是他从百科全书上知道的——他们跑开了，见人就抓，这个学校陷入一片混乱。
Merely being exposed to a new cold virus, however, is not enough for a person to catch a cold, since a strong immune system can successfully fight off some new viruses.
然而，仅仅是接触到一种新的感冒病毒并不足以导致一个人患感冒，因为强壮的免疫系统能够成功地战胜一些新病毒。
Subsequently, my day would start off late, which meant I was busy “playing catch-up” and being late for my appointments.
随后，我的白天也开始的比较晚，那就意味着我忙于“追赶”并且我经常晚于我的约定时间。
Subsequently, my day would start off late, which meant I was busy "playing catch-up" and being late for my appointments.
随后，我的白天也开始的比较晚，那就意味着我忙于“追赶”并且我经常晚于我的约定时间。
"This one we caught right before it went off the planet, but other species surely we didn't catch in time," Mendelson said in a telephone interview.
“这也是我们抓住时机保护它们以免从这个星球上消失，但其他物种当然，很遗憾我们没有及时救助，”门德尔松在接受电话采访时说。
And Wilson and Penzias discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation, physical evidence for the Big Bang, while fiddling with an antenna designed to catch radio waves bouncing off satellites.
威尔逊和彭齐亚斯捕捉人造卫星上反弹回来的无线电波的天线时不经意地发现了宇宙微波背景辐射，而这正是宇宙大爆炸的物理性证据。
They pick off village dogs, goats, and calves when they can catch them.
它们会带走村中能抓到的狗、山羊和小牛。
Like putting off writing a paper, but using that time to draw some sketches or catch up on some reading?
比如推迟写论文的时候，用那些时间去画一些素描或者补充一些阅读？
Book an extra day off so that you've got time to get over your jetlag and catch up with your laundry.
预定额外的一天以至于你能够有时间调整你的时差和打理你需要干洗的衣服。
Frequently I heard their noisy calling, but usually they had moved off before I could catch up with them.
我经常听到它们噪音般的叫声，但在我追上它们之前就消失不见了。
You need to catch the right wave at the right time and know when to get off.
你需要在正确时间把握正确趋势，并且知道何时脱手。
Back in 2001, along with most investors, the agencies were slow to catch on to the fact that energy giant Enron was hiding massive liabilities off of its balance sheet.
回溯至2001年，评级机构同大多数投资者一样没能及时发现能源巨头安然在其资产负债表中隐瞒大笔负债的事实。
If a project or a job gets off to a bad start it can be difficult to catch up.
你不必去粉饰出一个好的开始。如果一个项目或者一份工作开始的时候没有做好你不必去粉饰它。
For example, he encouraged poor people to move near swamps, so they would catch diseases and begin dying off.
比如，他们鼓励穷人搬到沼泽地附近，在那里他们可能会染病而死。
For example, he encouraged poor people to move near swamps, so they would catch diseases and begin dying off.
比如，他们鼓励穷人搬到沼泽地附近，在那里他们可能会染病而死。
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