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

• 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。
• The city has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter.
  就连诱惑人的蛇精也想不出比这再糟的模样了。
• He knows the wiles of the serpent.
  他知道阴险毒辣的人的种种诡计。
• 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。
• He became a prey to the wicked woman's wiles.
  他中了那个邪女的奸计。
• 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”。
• 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。
• 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。
• Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
  要穿戴神所赐的全副军装，就能抵挡魔鬼的诡计。
• 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。