wiles

英 [waɪlz]

美 [waɪlz]

n.  花招; 诡计; 奸计
v.  欺骗，诱骗；消遣
wile的第三人称单数和复数

牛津词典

noun

• 花招；诡计；奸计
  clever tricks that sb uses in order to get what they want or to make sb behave in a particular way

柯林斯词典

• N-PLURAL (尤指女子说服人所用的)花言巧语，巧计
  Wilesare clever tricks that people, especially women, use to persuade other people to do something.
  1. She claimed that women 'use their feminine wiles to get on.'
     她声称女人“靠她们的小聪明来达到目的”。

双语例句

• She understood all his wiles.
  她完全知道他那一套花招。
• He'll have to use all his wiles on her to get her to agree.
  他将不得不对她用尽所有的花招来骗她同意。
• The fox's wiles will never enter the lion's head.
  狐狸的诡计永远进不了狮子的头脑。
• A guy in Oklahoma may have broken his thermometer back in 1936, Wiles said, meaning that there could be no measurements at all for two months of that year.
  比如怀尔斯就指出：1936年，俄克拉荷马州的某个负责量气温的家伙有可能不小心把温度计弄坏了。这样的话，当年可能就有两个月根本没有气温记录。
• Who knew how to ply her feminine wiles.
  谁知道她是怎么勾引他的。
• Bola o was a writer with tricks up his sleeve, and he distributed his wiles across many genres: novellas, poetry, short stories, essays and the epic 1100-page "2666".
  波拉尼奥是一位立意奇颖的作家，他在多种题材上皆有创新，其中包括长篇小说、短篇小说、诗歌、散文，还有那长达1100页、史诗般的。
• Our strategy is to tell people about their climate locally in ways they can understand, and the only way to do that is with big data analysis, said Richard Wiles, vice president for strategic communications and director of research with Climate Central.
  气候中心的战略沟通副总裁兼研究主任理查德o怀尔斯表示：我们的战略是以人们能够理解的方式告诉他们当地的气候情况，唯一能实现这个目标的方法就是通过大数据分析。
• He can neither resist the wiles of the enemy himself, while in this state, nor can he prevail in prayer for others.
  因为一个失望的人，既不能抵抗仇敌的攻击，又不能为人发出有效的代祷。
• He became a prey to the wicked woman's wiles.
  他中了那个邪女的奸计。
• All her wiles were to persuade them to buy the goods.
  她花言巧语想打动他们买这些货物。