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

• He knows the wiles of the serpent.
  他知道阴险毒辣的人的种种诡计。
• 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 are not enough to persuade them to sell the property
  她花言巧语也未能打动他们卖掉物业
• Ms Wiles explained her concept the Huffington Post: 'Being able to see the entertainment value in a baby who refuses to go to sleep or a kid who is having a tantrum over a broken goldfish cracker is part of parental survival.'
  怀尔斯向《赫芬顿邮报》介绍了自己的想法：宝宝们愤怒时的搞怪表情有着很强的娱乐价值，宝宝们拒绝去睡觉，或是打碎了金鱼饼干时的小脾气简直让父母们抓狂。
• 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。
• And we all got there using our feminine wiles.
  而我们都是靠女性的阴谋诡计爬到这儿的。
• 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”。
• 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。
• 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。