cross hairs
noun🔊/ˈkrɒs heəz/
🔊/ˈkrɔːs herz/
(British English) (North American English crosshairs)
[plural]Idioms a pair of very thin wires in the shape of a cross that you see when you look through a gunsight, microscope, etc. I raised the rifle and got the deer in the cross hairs. 我举起步枪，把那头鹿放到了十字准线中。
Idioms
(caught) in the cross hairs
in a situation in which you are the target or victim of somebody's anger, violence or blame In the fight over immigration, it's kids who are really getting caught in the cross hairs. 在移民问题上，真正被十字准线夹住的是孩子们。