stratagem
stratagem 英 [ˈstrætədʒəm] 美 [ˈstrætədʒəm]
n. 策略；计谋
名词复数:stratagems
- A stratagem is a scheme or a clever plot. You can have a stratagem for winning a chess game, getting the girl (or boy), and avoiding a punishment. However, your opponents, crushes, and parents may have a trick or two of their own.
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- n. 策略；计谋
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1. Far worse than parent-assisted essays are the ready-made ones available for roughly the same price as two tickets to the movies, a stratagem that will almost certainly go awry.
比家长帮忙写的作文更糟糕的是那些唾手可得的论文，其价格相当于两张电影票。 这种策略几乎注定是错误的。
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2. When Lincoln finally unveiled the Emancipation Proclamation in the fall of 1862, he framed it in Butleresque terms, not as a humanitarian gesture but as a stratagem of war.
林肯在1862年最后签署了解放黑奴的法令，法令还是以Butler式的术语写的，没有人道主义的色彩，只是作为战争的策略。
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3. Rees-Jones was told the stratagem had been approved by Fayed in London--a claim the Harrods owner denies.
他们对里斯-琼斯说，在伦敦时这个计划已经得到老法耶德的同意（老法耶德现在对此予以否认）。
- stratagem (n.) "artifice, trick," late 15c., from Middle French strattegeme, stratagème "trick, especially to outwit an enemy" (15c.), from Italian stratagemma, from Latin strategema "artifice, stratagem," from Greek strategema "the act of a general; military stratagem," from strategein "to be a general, command," from strategos "general" (see strategy). Related: Stratagematic; stratagemical. The second -a- is a Romanic misspelling (compare Spanish estratagema).
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