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

• His wiles and quirks do not diminish his humanity.
  他的把戏和怪癖无损于他的人道精神。
• "Because you found none of your social level to ply your wiles on?" he laughed harshly.
  “因为你没有找到和你的社会地位相同的人来实施你的诡计？”他粗俗笑道。
• He did not fail to see/ His uncle's cunning wiles and treachery ( William Morris).
  他没有忽视他叔父的狡诈的诡计和背信忘义（威廉莫里斯）。
• 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。
• There are actually two types of big data in use today to help understand and deal with climate change, Wiles said.
  怀尔斯指出，目前主要有两种大数据形式可以用来帮助人们了解和应对气候变化。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。