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

• 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。
• Address those issues, and existing data can be just as powerful, just as big, Wiles said.
  怀尔斯表示，要解决这些问题，现有的数据可以说能力有多大，困难就有多大。
• He became a prey to the wicked woman's wiles.
  他中了那个邪女的奸计。
• This data was always kind of there, Wiles said, such as historic temperature trends in the United States.
  怀尔斯表示，这些数据基本上一直都在那儿，比如美国的历史气温趋势。
• I am too seasoned to your wiles.
  你的这种诡计骗不倒经验丰富的我。
• She understood all his wiles.
  她完全知道他那一套花招。
• Bread is an instrument, as a means to the satisfaction of hunger and to the support of life. They were men who guarded their free will with wiles and murder.
  面包也是一种手段，靠它来充饥和维持生命。他们都是些不惜采用欺诈与谋杀手段来维护自己的意志的人。
• The police were unable to penetrate the wiles of the cat burglar.
  警方无法识破窃贼的诡计。
• 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。
• And we all got there using our feminine wiles.
  而我们都是靠女性的阴谋诡计爬到这儿的。