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

• "we cannot tolerate guile of any kind," said the chairman of the committee.
  “我们不能容忍任何形式的欺骗，”委员会的主席说。
• I love children's innocence and lack of guile.
  我喜欢孩子的天真无邪。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He is a simple, honest man, totally lacking in guile.
  他是一个纯朴诚实的人，一点也不狡诈。
• 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。
• 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。
• A man of considerable resource and guile, I assure you.
  一个足智多谋的人，我保证。
• However, the definition I added comes straight out of the manual for Guile.
  但是，我增加的定义又直接超出了Guile手册的范围。