guile

英 [ɡaɪl]

美 [ɡaɪl]

n.  狡诈; 欺诈; 奸诈

复数：guiles　

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BNC.22120 / COCA.24013

牛津词典

noun

• 狡诈；欺诈；奸诈
  the use of clever but dishonest behaviour in order to trick people

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 狡诈；欺诈；奸诈
  Guileis the quality of being good at deceiving people in a clever way.
  1. His cunning and guile were not attributes I would ever underestimate...
     我从未对他的狡猾和奸诈掉以轻心。
  2. I love children's innocence and lack of guile.
     我喜欢孩子的天真无邪。

英英释义

noun

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
  Synonym:trickerychicanerychicanewileshenanigan
• the quality of being crafty
  Synonym:craftinessdeceitfulness
• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
  Synonym:craftcraftinesscunningfoxinessslynesswiliness

双语例句

• Pansy was really a blank page, a pure white surface, successfully kept so; she had neither art, nor guile, nor temper.
  帕茜实在是一张白纸，毫无瑕庇。她不会装模作样，弄虚作假，也没有脾气。
• A swashbuckler who uses agility and guile to stand toe-to-toe with enemies.
  一个用敏捷和贴身技能去与敌人周旋的侠客。
• This function initializes the global state of Guile and must be called prior to any other Scheme function.
  该函数初始化Guile的全局状态，它必须在任何其他Scheme函数之前调用。
• The president will need to use all her political guile to stay in power.
  总统将需要运用她所有的政治伎俩来继续执政。
• Hopefully, this article helps you glimpse the power of Guile.
  本文希望帮助您了解Guile的威力。
• Guile provides a rich set of functions to enable this functionality.
  Guile提供了一套丰富的函数来支持各种功能。
• In that large clear eye he could see nothing that his blase nature could understand as guile.
  从她清澈的大眼睛里看不到一丝他耽于声色的天性看惯的狡猾。
• Guile attempts to straddle the line between the two environments and extend to C the power of Scheme.
  Guile试图跨越两个环境之间的界线，将Scheme的威力扩展到C。
• But let it be so! I did not burden you; but, as some of you say, being crafty, I took you by guile.
  罢了！我并没有加给你们担子，你们却有人说，我是狡猾诡诈，用诡计牢笼你们。
• It seems mistaken to suppose that mere Churchillian rhetoric or Rooseveltian guile could achieve this.
  认为只靠丘吉尔的雄辩或者罗斯福的狡猾就能做到这一点的想法，似乎是不正确的。