英:[gaɪl]
美:[ɡaɪl]
英:[gaɪl]
美:[ɡaɪl]
Noun
1. shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
2. the quality of being crafty
3. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
中古英语中的“guile”(诈骗、诡计、欺骗、诡计)源于古法语 guile,意为“欺骗、诡计、欺诈、诈骗”,可能来自法兰克语 *wigila “诡计、欺骗”或相关的日耳曼语源,源自原始日耳曼语 *wih-l-(也是古弗里西亚语 wigila “巫术、巫术”、古英语 wig “偶像”、哥特语 weihs “神圣”、德语 weihen “祝圣”的来源),源自 PIE 词根 *weik-(2)“祝圣、神圣”。
Middle English gile, from Anglo-French, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Old English wigle divination — more at witch
The first known use of guile was in the 13th century
gunwalenoun
the upper edge of a ship's side
gunnysacknoun
a sack made of a coarse heavy fabric (as burlap)
gulpverb
to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one swallow
to keep back as if by swallowing
gulp down a sob
to catch the breath as if in taking a long drink
guisenoun
a form or style of dress : costume
in the guise of a shepherd
outer or disguised appearance : semblance
swindled people under the guise of friendship
guineanoun
an English gold coin no longer issued worth 21 shillings
a former unit of value equal to 21 shillings
guineanoun
an English gold coin no longer issued worth 21 shillings
a former unit of value equal to 21 shillings
guilenoun
sly trickery : duplicity
1 He is full of guile.
他非常狡诈.
2 Was he being sarcastic?..he was too nice a man for that, too lacking in guile.
3 We proceeded along the street, marching warily to avoid the assaults of guile unmoved by the fear of bombardment; the shops and warehouses to either side of us were evidently deserted.
4 Because with no guile and no game, there's no girl.
没有诡计,不玩把戏, 就钓不到马子.
5 What they cannot defeat by reason and argument they obstruct by delay and legalistic guile.
凡是他们不能通过理智和辩论战胜的东西,他们便采用拖延的办法和玩弄法律的手段来加以阻挠.
6 When you have done all this, or seen it done, it will be time to ponder concerning these contenders in your house—how you should kill them, outright or by guile.
7 Loki may be a creature of guile, but Sylvie relies on skill, intelligence and wit.
8 Some used force, bribery and guile to achieve their wealth and power.
一些人使用武力, 行贿和种种诡计来攫取财富和权力.
9 He saw a simple, sincere face that was incapable of subtlety or guile, an honest, frank face with disunited large eyes, rusty hair, black eyebrows and an unfortunate reddish- brown mustache.
10 With Peakes as the repulsive yet captivating court composer who, with Iago’s guile, coaxes his brilliant better, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, into an early grave, we’re in the very best hands.
11 There was no hiding here, though, and because there was no guile in him, everything he felt showed on his face.
12 A show about power, guile and who to take to the spring fling, Mike Lew’s adaptation of “Richard III,” set in a suburban high school, nears graduation.
13 A swindler uses guile; a robber uses force.
骗子用诈术; 强盗用武力.
14 What it lacks in guile it more than makes up for in excitement.
15 Wickedness is in the midst thereof : deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
邪恶在其中,欺压和诡诈不离街市.
16 The making of the WFP is an impressive example of female empowerment mixed with chutzpah, charm, good luck and occasional guile.
17 Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile.
18 And though rampant with provocation, Can lacked the self-conscious guile of much Western experimentalism.
19 Below a certain age, kids don’t have enough guile to filter what their parents tell them in private.
20 In this speech, Satan talks a big game about “force or guile”—but having tried force and lost, guile is his inevitable resort.
1 策略
political politic number device policy strategy train angle politics curve tactic maneuver finesse ploy ruse curveball cutie gambit sleight wheeling tactics stratagem
2 欺诈
two-tongued fraudulent shifting oblique sham deceitful rascally Janus-faced shift trick gouge dishonesty deceit humbug fakery bunco gyp covin chantage flam circumvent mump monkey tricks forked tongue monkey business fast one knavish art scam fiddle trickery rip-off knavery play fast and loose unfair indirect deceptive bogus insidious disingenuous insincere plant fraud juggle cunning imposition ruse insincerity imposture swindling cheat racketeer impose defraud bilk flimflam swindle skin game two faces under one hood false phoney double-dealing lurk hanky-panky gag duplicity baloney shenanigan dupe beguile gazump job screw twist pluck on the cross crooked devious low-down sleaze chicanery rort sting hoodwink finagle
3 阴险
subtle sinister feline dishonest sly insidious designing serpentine underhand catty snaky backstairs Mephistophelian guileful cattish hole-and-corner Jesuitic subtlety blackness foulness jesuitry
4 狡诈
cunning crafty crooked sly dodgy underhand scheming vulpecular wide deep subtle quaint feline insidious wily foxy canny politic carney vulpine knavish fallacy
5 坦率
straight honest genuine bare transparent straightforward bluff outspoken man-to-man open-faced straight-arrow straight-out upfront unreserve baldly straightforwards candor roundness candour
6 骗术
7 欺骗
double deceptive illusory underhanded underhand illusive colorable captious trumpery trickish sell beat craft blind fake cheat deception bunk gouge dishonesty gull deceit trickery swindle duplicity indirection hanky-panky flimflam chicane roguery shenanigan humbuggery rope jockey bamboozle palter have kid abuse trick screw fool bull mock sting deceive betray juggle mislead hoax dupe victimize rook delude beguile humbug cajole bilk diddle gammon finagle mump gyp double-cross befoul cozen blear goldbrick befool fox blear eyes put over on juggle with do brown put the change upon play the fool with sail under false colors act a double part lead up the garden slip over on cross up tricky spurious tortuous fiddling delusive jiggery-pokery try-on rip-off put-on take-in twist fraud hype hustle fudge sham falsehood stratagem boondoggle skulduggery hocus-pocus razzmatazz blague swizz spruce pettifog two-time illude con buffalo mystify hoodwink bunco hocus euchre do green cross lie string bite impose sucker fiddle chisel under false colours bludge on on the fiddle play false stall off put one across fob off sell a a pup put it across take for a ride try it on make a fool of funny dirty fraudulent shenanigans artifice funny business snow shaft snooker jive play dirty lead up the garden path put one over on come the raw prawn pull a fast one take advantage of play games fob off on put on wind up take in prey on
8 诡计
art device plant web shift trap blind fraud dodge shuffle fiddle sham gouge decoy gull ruse wile artifice subterfuge bilk chicanery curve ball scheme trick intrigue manoeuvre shenanigans stratagem humbug craftiness wiles skulduggery game practice catch double craft angle shine rig gadget fetch crook deceit trickery sleight contrivance flam skullduggery wangle flimflam shenanigan jiggery-pokery machinate
9 正直的
clean-handed white-handed right clean straight square honest upright righteous honorable candid honourable rightful upstanding upfront incorrupt conscionable large-hearted right hearted integer vitae
10 狡猾
wide deep subtle tricky slippery crafty cunning sly shrewd artful wily serpentine foxy vulpine guileful cattish slyly cunningly craftily cattily slily wilily craft subtlety trickiness cattiness wiliness treacherousness felinity Punic faith sharp dodgy knowing designing slippy outsmart fly wise greasy politic Punic surreptitious perfidious lubricious captious pawky trickish perfidy slim astute leery canny calculating catty sleight artifice fast-fingered pretty smart funny slick dishonest insidious devious downy cagey snaky tricksy iky coony subtly dishonesty lubricity craftiness jesuitism mala fide vulpecular old flash artificial arch shifting feline disingenuous deceitful twisty snide sleekit sleeky snidy calc. policy wile jesuitry
11 坦率的
straight honest genuine bare transparent straightforward bluff outspoken man-to-man open-faced straight-arrow straight-out upfront
12 奸诈
double-hearted tricky cunning treacherous duplicitous perfidious vulpine snaky guileful craftily foxery treachery duplicity trickiness knavery canniness jesuitism foxiness felinity Punic faith rascally foxy shoddy dirty trick
13 正直
clean-handed white-handed right clean straight square honest upright righteous honorable candid honourable rightful upstanding upfront incorrupt conscionable large-hearted fair rightly morally honor integrity honour rightness probity rectitude squareness right hearted right mindedness integer vitae