wheedle
wheedle 英 [ˈwi:dl] 美 [ˈhwidl, ˈwidl]
vt. 以甜言蜜语诱惑；用甜言蜜语欺骗 vi. 用甜言蜜语哄骗
进行时:wheedling 过去式:wheedled 过去分词:wheedled 第三人称单数:wheedles
- To wheedle is to sweet talk, or flatter someone in the hopes of getting something in return. You might try to wheedle a meter maid into not giving you a parking ticket. Good luck with that.
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- vt. 以甜言蜜语诱惑；用甜言蜜语欺骗
- vi. 用甜言蜜语哄骗
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1. If North Korea does agree, economic distress and the opportunity to wheedle more aid out of China and the U.S. may explain this change of heart.
如果朝鲜真的同意重返六方会谈，那么经济上的不景气和从中美两国骗取更多援助的机会可能就是它改变主意的原因。
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2. By the '80s, many Western Europeans came in too, some succumbing to the charms of 'sex 007s' - spies of both sexes who used seduction to wheedle out 'secrets' from unsuspecting tourists.
到了八十年代，许多西欧游客也来到这里，他们中有些人跌入了“桃色陷阱”，异性间谍用色相引诱游客而获取情报。
- wheedle (v.) "to influence by flattery," 1660s, of uncertain origin, perhaps connected with Old English wædlian "to beg," from wædl "poverty" [OED], or borrowed by English soldiers in the Thirty Years' War from German wedeln "wag the tail," hence "fawn, flatter" (compare adulation). Related: Wheedled; wheedling.
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