devious
devious 英 [ˈdi:viəs] 美 [ˈdiviəs]
adj. 偏僻的；弯曲的；不光明正大的
- Devious describes someone who tends to lie and to trick other people. Devious credit card companies lure younger and younger people into debt with offers of low interest rates and even just free t-shirts.
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- adj. 偏僻的；弯曲的；不光明正大的
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1. In my 11 years in this field I have never met someone so devious in their negotiating tactics as this particular agent.
在我11年从事这个领域的经历里，我还从未见过谁象这个特别的代理人那样在谈判策略中表现得如此迂回的。
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2. In photos and drawings he looks like anyone else, but his devious smile points to an underlying evil that is beyond representation.
在照片和画像中，他看上去和其他任何人都差不多，然而他狡猾的笑容代表着一种表象之外的潜在邪恶。
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3. Meanwhile, officials argued that Bahrain had become a democracy and that anyone who rejected the 2002 constitution was bent on destabilising the country, perhaps on behalf of a devious Iranian hand.
与此同时，政府认为巴林已经拥有了民主，而任何反对2002年宪法的人都是在试图危害国家，或许还在暗地里代表伊朗的利益。
- devious (adj.) 1590s, "out of the way," from Latin devius "out of the way, remote, off the main road," from de via; from de "off" (see de-) + via "way, road" (see via). Compare deviate. Originally in the Latin literal sense; figurative sense of "deceitful" is first recorded 1630s. Related: Deviously; deviousness. Figurative senses of the Latin word were "retired, sequestered, wandering in the byways, foolish, inconsistent."
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