Intrigue
[ɪn'triːg] or ['ɪn'triɡ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends.
(noun.) a clandestine love affair.
(verb.) cause to be interested or curious.
欧内斯廷編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
(v. i.) To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.
(v. t.) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.
(v. i.) Intricacy; complication.
(v. i.) A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
(v. i.) The plot or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.
(v. i.) A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.
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同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Plot, conspiracy, cabal, machination, stratagem, manœuvre, wile, finesse, ruse.[2]. Amour, love affair.
v. n. [1]. Manœuvre, form plots.[2]. Carry on an amour.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Cabal, plot, conspiracy, machination, artifice, design, manoeuvres, cunning,duplicity, trickery, chicanery, love_affair, amour, ruse
ANT:Insurrection, rebellion, congress, assembly, force, violence, assault,openness, candor, sincerity, honesty, probity, straightforwardness
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解釋/意思:
n. a complex plot: a private or party scheme: the plot of a play or romance: secret illicit love.—v.i. to form a plot or scheme: to carry on illicit love:—pr.p. intrigu′ing; pa.p. intrigued′.—ns. In′trigant Intrig′uer one who intrigues or pursues an object by secret artifices.
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例句/造句/用法:
- One of the sons of Murad I embarked on an intrigue with Andronicus, the son of the Greek Emperor, to murder their respective fathers. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Christians lost Jerusalem again in 1244; it was taken from them very easily by the Sultan of Egypt when they attempted an intrigue against him. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It surpassed any complications of intrigue in her favourite Pigault le Brun. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He professed both to abominate and despise all mystery, refinement, and intrigue, either in a prince or a minister. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- What were love and intrigue now? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a mere vulgar intrigue. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- No one that I know, said De Bracy, unless it be your vow of celibacy, or a check of conscience for an intrigue with a Jewess. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Gudrun liked her and was intrigued by her. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Some families have fought, others have intrigued their way to world power; the Habsburgs married their way. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Your intrigues then are so frequent, that you forget with whom they occur it should seem? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Her intrigues with Russia for the furtherance of her object, excited the jealousy of the Porte, and the animosity of the Greek government. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- And so this devil is still going on with her intrigues, thought William. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- In the midst of these intrigues and fine parties and wise and brilliant personages Rawdon felt himself more and more isolated every day. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- We have our intrigues and our parties. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Permit me, Madame Clennam who suppresses, to present Monsieur Flintwinch who intrigues. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- We will not trouble ourselves here with the names and follies, the crimes and intrigues, of its tale of emperors. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The baseness of communing and intriguing with the fellow who would have set that stain upon her, and upon her brother too, was attained. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- All the journalists should be shot as well as most of the people in this room and certainly the intriguing German unmentionable of a Richard. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I have been intriguing, since I came to Paris, with almost every Frenchwoman I could find. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Why don't you take to intriguing with women of fashion? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The intriguing Palli, the accomplished Karazza, the warlike Ypsilanti, were among the principal. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
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