天羅地網

天罗地网
tiānluódìwǎng
  1. inescapable net (idiom)
  2. trap
  3. dragnet

CEDICT

  1. (figuratively) far-flung network; inescapable net; tight encirclement with no escape (Classifier: 張／张 m)
  2. far-flung network; inescapable net; tight encirclement with no escape (Classifier: 張／张 m)

Wiktionary

比喻防範布置得極為嚴密而無法逃脫。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 天 tiān
  1. day
  2. sky
  3. heaven
2 羅 luó
  1. gauze
  2. to collect
  3. to gather
  4. to catch
  5. to sift
3 地 dì
  1. earth
  2. ground
  3. field
  4. place
  5. land

classifier: 片
4 網 wǎng
  1. net
  2. network

Containing this entry

萬維天羅地網 Wànwéi Tiānluó Dìwǎng
  1. World Wide Web (WWW)
  2. lit. ten-thousand dimensional net covering heaven and earth
  3. term coined by China News Digest and abbr. to 萬維網 Wànwéiwǎng

Related entries

存水彎 cúnshuǐwān
  1. trap (plumbing)
  2. U-bend
捉捕器 zhuōbǔqì trap (for animals etc)
擭 huò trap
弇 yǎn
  1. to cover
  2. trap
牢籠 láolóng
  1. cage
  2. trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals)
  3. fig. bonds (of wrong ideas)
  4. shackles (of past misconceptions)
  5. to trap
  6. to shackle
人获得自由，究竟意味着什么？难道就是从一个牢笼里巧妙地逃出来，其实只是置身于另一个更大的牢笼。

What does obtaining freedom really mean? It may seem like cleverly escaping out of a cage, but one just ends up in another bigger cage.

Source: Tatoeba

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