Coaxing
['koksɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade; 'a coaxing and obsequious voice'; 'her manner is quiet and ingratiatory and a little too agreeable' .
克利福德整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coax
整理:塔尼娅
例句/造句/用法:
- She had pretty, coaxing ways, as you might say, and I thought there was no harm in letting her just put her head through the door. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Neither threats nor coaxing could avail: he could not count on any persistent fear nor on any promise. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- She had almost got a second supply out of me the other day; with her coaxing ways. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Of course he could not feel real anger on his side: the match was too unequal in every way; he tried soothing and coaxing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I had gone up to ask him about you, and he was very offensive; accused me of coaxing you away from the service of the firm, and that sort of thing. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The discourse seemed well adapted to their capacities, and was delivered in a pleasing, familiar manner, coaxing them, as it were, to be good. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- And so, by dint of alternate coaxing and commanding, he contrived to get them all once more enclosed in their separate dormitories. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I tried coaxing, and coaxing failed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Caliphronas, with that wonderful power he had over all animals, advanced, nude as he was, up the bank, and called to the horse in a coaxing tone. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- But he was not a bad master--he had a monstrous civil tongue of his own, and a jolly, easy, coaxing way with him. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He had carefully withheld all promise to do so; but would he be proof against her coaxing and argument? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Cajolements, coaxings, smiles, tears could not satisfy Sir Pitt, and he had something very like a quarrel with his once admired Becky. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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