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a problem or difficulty, especially one that is small, hidden or unexpected synonym difficulty(尤指潜在的、意外的、不严重的)问题,困难,障碍,麻烦 There is just one small snag—where is the money coming from? 只有一个小问题:钱从哪儿来? Let me know if you run into any snags. 要是遇到什么麻烦就告诉我。
Extra ExamplesTopics Difficulty and failurec2I suddenly saw a major snag with the whole idea. 我忽然发现整个想法存在一个大问题。 The only snag is the price. 价格是唯一的障碍。 There are a few snags to iron out before the prototype is ready. 模型样品做好之前还有几个问题要解决。 There is a snag to the job: you have to work at weekends. 这份工作的缺点是周末得上班。 We've hit a technical snag—the printer isn't compatible with my PC. 我们遇到一个技术性小麻烦:那台打印机与我的个人电脑不兼容。 The only snag with the course is that it's quite short. 这门课唯一的缺点是时间太短。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
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an object or a part of an object that is rough or sharp and may cut something 突出物;尖齿;尖角;尖刺 Check all surfaces for snags and rough edges. 检查所有表面是否有阻碍和粗糙的边缘。
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a sausage 香肠
Word Originnoun senses 1 to 2 late 16th cent. (in sense (2) of the noun): probably of Scandinavian origin. The early sense ‘stump sticking out from a tree trunk’ gave rise to a US sense ‘submerged piece of timber obstructing navigation’, of which sense 1 is originally a figurative use. Current verb senses arose in the 19th cent. noun sense 3 1940s: of unknown origin.