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Think of a big green table with coloured balls on it and two players holding long sticks. The whole word starts here, at that table; the other meaning is a situation from this game that people borrowed for ordinary life.
可以想成一張鋪著綠布的大桌子，上面散著彩色的球，兩個人各拿一支長桿。這個字的一切都從這張桌子開始；另一個意思則是這個…更多收起
可以想成一張鋪著綠布的大桌子，上面散著彩色的球，兩個人各拿一支長桿。這個字的一切都從這張桌子開始；另一個意思則是這個運動裡的一種局面，被人借去講日常生活。原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
snookernoun/ˈsnuːkə(ɹ)/
- 1
A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
- 2
ball-gamesgameshobbiesThe situation where the cue ball is in such a position that the player cannot directly hit a legal ball with it.
- She put her opponent in a snooker.
snookerverb/ˈsnuːkə(ɹ)/
- 1
To play the game of snooker.
- 2
To fool or bamboozle.
- But to critics like the New York Times's Paul Krugman, Ryan was an obvious con man weaponizing the deficit to hamstring Obama's presidency, weaken the recovery, and snooker Beltway centrists eager to champion a reasonable-seeming Republican.
- Los Angeles would still be a piddling little town in a desert if it weren’t for Sierra snowmelt and city officials crafty enough to snooker eastern California farmers out of their water rights.
- 3
ball-gamesgameshobbiesTo place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it.
- 4
To put (someone) in a difficult situation.
- Sam McDougall, Operations Director for NR's East Coast Route, explains: "Until recently, if anything went wrong in the two-track section between Stoke and Doncaster, we were snookered.
- 5
To cause to become inebriated.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。