The government has found that it's caught in a trap of its own making.

政府已经发现其陷入了自己造成的困境中。

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Nathan's dog got caught in a trap.

内森的狗被捕捉器夹住了。

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The trap caught me and the Farmer put a collar on me and made me a watchdog.

我被陷阱困住，农夫给我戴上了项圈，让我成了一只看门狗。

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As Ryan winches up the lobster traps from the channel floor, Paul Cabral pulls out any lobsters large enough to harvest, and throws back the rest along with anything else that got caught in the trap - mostly crabs and starfish.

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Conservation efforts and trap-and-transfer programs, in which turkeys were caught and moved to under-populated areas, brought the population back to healthy levels by the 1960s.

BBC: Shooting a Thanksgiving dinner

And Europe's housing markets are caught in an unenviable trap because so many households have variable-rate mortgages.

ECONOMIST: Finance

It is a depressing state of affairs when about two-thirds of our fellow citizens are caught in an economic trap that is wrecking their lives financially and emotionally.

CNN: Carville: What if the rich lost 40% of their wealth?