牢籠 [－笼]

Jyutping lou4 lung4
Pinyin láo lóng

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  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
Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. noun, figuratively
    trick; snare; trap
  2. noun
    cage or trap for catching animals
  3. noun, figuratively
    bonds; shackles
  4. verb
    to trap; to shackle; to bind
Definitions (Kaifangcidian)
  1. （沒有對應漢語詞彙）
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
  1. Mandarin
    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。
    人獲得自由，究竟意味着什麼？難道就是從一個牢籠裏巧妙地逃出來，其實只是置身於另一個更大的牢籠。
    rén huò dé zì yóu ， jiū jìng yì wèi zhe shén me ？ nán dào jiù shì cóng yí gè láo lóng lǐ qiǎo miào dì táo chū lái ， qí shí zhǐ shì zhì shēn yú lìng yī gè gèng dà de láo lóng 。
    • 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.