Pitfall

(noun.) an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty.

艾达整理

• Hindrances and pitfalls, dear girls, which beset us on our way to higher things! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• On our way upstairs, I called her attention to the sudden disappearance of Mrs. Crupp's pitfalls, and also to the prints of recent footsteps. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The notion is typical of the pitfalls in the path of any theorist who does not correct his logic by a constant reference to the movement of life. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Mr Venus took the lead, towing Mr Wegg, in order that his refractory leg might be promptly extricated from any pitfalls it should dig for itself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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