英:[ˈkeɪdʒi]
美:[ˈkedʒi]
英:[ˈkeɪdʒi]
美:[ˈkedʒi]
比较级:cagier
最高级:cagiest或cageiest
词根:cagy
adj.cagy 小心谨慎的;机灵的(等于cagey)
adv.cagily 精明地;谨慎小心地;狡诈地
Adjective
1. showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others;
"a cagey lawyer"
"too clever to be sound"
2. characterized by great cautious and wariness;
"a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"
"chary of the risks involved"
"a chary investor"
"回避的,沉默寡言的",1896年,美国俚语,起源不明。在早期的英国方言中,它的意思是“嬉戏的”。
origin unknown
The first known use of cagey was in 1876
cageyadjective
very careful of not being trapped or deceived
a cagey buyer
1 The old recluse was very cagey about her past life.
老隐士对自己过去的生活守口如瓶.
2 One big change is that interest rates are higher, which makes large purchases more expensive to finance, and makes buyers cagier about purchasing anything, new cars included.
3 He's affable but very cagey, and thus 100% believable as a gifted politician.
4 He is cagey and coy, yet seething with indignation at this white-collar worm who murdered a young woman, and at himself for not pursuing this sooner.
5 "When it starts to warm up a little and they're feeling cagey."
6 The Banks have even grown cagey about lending to each other.
银行已经更加谨慎的把资金相互转借。
7 “I woke up this morning and was like: You know? I’m not going to be cagey today. I’m just going to tell it straight,” he said.
8 Both series, “Smiley’s People” especially, play as a succession of tense one-on-one encounters between Smiley and the cagey characters who populate his world.
9 For one thing, though Tommy carried on with his animal pictures, he became cagey about doing them in my presence.
10 At the beauty salon where she works, Aisha’s rightly cagey as she listens to her customers.
11 He's very cagey about his family.
他对他家庭的事守口如瓶.
12 A handsome, dark-haired Irish actor with an intense screen presence, Colin Farrell shot to fame in the USA as a cagey army recruit with a penchant for troublemaking in Tigerland (2000).
科林·法雷尔是一名有着深色头发的爱尔兰演员,相貌英俊,银幕气质非凡。凭借在《虎地恋战》(2000)中饰演精明却又喜欢捣乱的新兵一角,法雷尔在美国一举成名。
13 He remained cagey as to whether he would let Parker leave.
谈到是否愿意让帕克离开时他出言谨慎。
14 It turns out that Alice and Adam know a kindly gay teacher who is determined to protect them, and that a cagey lawyer like Alex Twisden knows how to turn sexual orientation into a liability.
15 She has a winsome translator, a force of loyal eunuch fighters and an adviser who happens to be the cagiest person in this entire story.
16 We can't play cagey and we have to go at them.
我们不能够小心奕奕地比赛,我们必须向他们作出反扑.
17 Cote and Mark were pretty cagey when asked if Michael will be back.
18 Again, I have to be cagey talking about it because we kept "X" a secret for so long and I think that's been a benefit to the movie.
19 But the reason to watch is Michael Chiklis, who played Mackey as a volatile but cagey pit bull, quick to violence but also two steps ahead of everyone else.
20 Nirmala reveals this in the second episode of the new season when Kamala returns home early from work to find Grandma in the kitchen being cagey.
1 守口如瓶的
2 吞吞吐吐
3 谨慎的
safe religious conservative deliberate cautious strait diligent discreet unobtrusive prudential canny politic gingerly circumspect chary heedful pudibund careful modest wary prudent considerate guarded studious well-advised
4 吞吞吐吐的
5 谨慎小心的
6 秘而不宣
7 不泄漏秘密的
8 守口如瓶
cagily close tight-lipped close-mouthed hold your cards close to your chest keep your cards close to your chest play your cards close to your chest keep the lid on keep your mouth shut keep a lid on
9 狡猾
fast-fingered pretty smart funny sharp subtle tricky slim slick slippery crafty dishonest cunning sly astute knowing insidious shrewd artful devious designing wily serpentine leery foxy canny politic downy vulpine snaky tricksy pawky iky coony trickish subtly craftily cattily subtlety dishonesty guile lubricity craftiness jesuitism mala fide vulpecular old flash wise artificial arch shifting greasy feline dodgy disingenuous deceitful twisty snide calculating catty guileful sleekit cattish sleeky snidy calc. policy craft wile sleight jesuitry
10 精明的
sharp cute sage astute knowing shrewd artful canny downy calculating parlous perspicuous longheaded be all there flip long-pated hard-nose hard together aware smart flash wise prudent discerning ware politic adroit sagacious knowledgable argute calc. clever dodgy brainy fiendish hardheaded cagy crazy as a fox crazy like a fox up to snuff
11 小心的
careful tender shy prudent considerate prudential chary precautious cautious wary watchful guarded cagy cautelous
12 谨慎
safe religious conservative deliberate cautious strait diligent discreet unobtrusive prudential canny politic gingerly circumspect chary heedful caution diligence prudence circumspection beware pussyfoot pudibund careful modest wary prudent considerate guarded studious well-advised reserve counsel discretion modesty retenue guard step by step on the safe side
13 狡猾的
fast-fingered pretty smart funny sharp subtle tricky slim slick slippery crafty dishonest cunning sly astute knowing insidious shrewd artful devious designing wily serpentine leery foxy canny politic downy vulpine snaky tricksy pawky iky coony trickish vulpecular old flash wise artificial arch shifting greasy feline dodgy disingenuous deceitful twisty snide calculating catty guileful sleekit cattish sleeky snidy calc.
15 谨小慎微
16 谨小慎微的
17 精明
sharp cute sage astute knowing shrewd artful canny downy calculating parlous perspicuous longheaded prudence sagacity have a head on shoulders be all there flip long-pated hard-nose hard together aware smart flash wise prudent discerning ware politic adroit sagacious knowledgable argute calc. policy acuity discernment gumption smartness have eyes wide open clever dodgy brainy fiendish hardheaded cagy wisely prudently capably adroitness braininess crazy as a fox crazy like a fox up to snuff