guile
guile 英 [gaɪl] 美 [ɡaɪl]
n. 狡猾；诡计；欺诈
名词复数:guiles
- Use the noun guile for cunning, craftiness, and artful duplicity. Acting like you have a job on Wall Street when you're actually unemployed would take a lot of guile.
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- n. 狡猾；诡计；欺诈
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1. Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile.
未经驯化的人性是不坦率、不天真的，而是出自本能的狡猾，充满了怪僻与防范。
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2. An hour later when the conversation began to lag, Gerald, with a guile that belied the wide innocence of his bright blue eyes, proposed a game.
谈话一小时之后，开始放慢，于是杰拉尔德想出一个诡计，那双碧蓝的眼睛也不由得流露出真情来----他提议玩牌。
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3. There are always evil, oppressive forces at work on any society but they'll be found wanting in guile if they come at us goose-stepping and shouting "Sieg Heil!" for a second time.
在任何社会中，总有一股邪恶压抑的力量在起作用， 但是如果他们嘴里叫喊着“胜利”走着正步第二次向我们走来，你会发现他们还不够狡猾。
- guile (n.) mid-12c., from Old French guile "deceit, wile, fraud, ruse, trickery," probably from Frankish *wigila "trick, ruse" or a related Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *wih-l- (source also of Old Frisian wigila "sorcery, witchcraft," Old English wig "idol," Gothic weihs "holy," German weihen "consecrate"), from PIE root *weik- (2) "consecrated, holy."
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