tree

Compared meaning: to force someone or something into a trap (verb).

比较义项：逼入绝境、使无路可逃（动词）。

• tree 本词

  Rare and mostly literal: describes hunting dogs or hunters chasing an animal up a tree so it has no way down; almost never used of people.

  tree 较为罕见，且多为字面意义：指猎犬或猎人把动物逼上树，使其无路可逃；几乎不用于人。

  The hunting dogs treed the raccoon, leaving it trapped with no escape.

  猎犬把浣熊逼上树，使它无路可逃。

• corner

  Common and flexible, used for people or animals, literally or figuratively, as in cornering someone with questions or cornering a market; no link to trees.

  corner 更为常用，用法灵活，可用于人也可用于动物，既可用于字面意义，也常用于比喻义，如逼问某人或垄断某个市场；与“树”没有关联。

  The journalist cornered the senator with questions he could not dodge.

  记者把那位参议员逼到无法回避问题的地步。

Both mean forcing something with no escape. Tree is rare: hunting dogs chase an animal up a tree; almost never for people. Corner is common, used for people or animals, often figuratively. Tree (noun) and corner ('an angle') are not compared here.

这两个词在本义项中都表示把人或动物逼到无处可逃的绝境，但 tree 较为罕见，多用于猎犬或猎人把动物逼上树的具体场景，带有“逼上树”的字面联想，几乎不用于人；corner 则更为常见，可用于人也可用于动物，既有字面用法也常见于比喻语境（如逼问某人、垄断市场）。这里不比较 tree 的名词义“树”，也不比较 corner 的名词义“角落”及“around the corner”这类短语。