Trickery
['trɪk(ə)rɪ] or ['trɪkəri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).
(noun.) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way.
迪克整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
克洛伊校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Deception, fraud, artifice, deceitfulness, knavery, chicane, chicanery.[2]. Legerdemain, sleight of hand.
整理:露丝
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Deception, fraud, artifice, chicanery, knavery,[See ARTIFICE]
艾丽萨校對
例句/造句/用法:
- In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It was impossible to stifle the consequences of that process for ever by political trickery. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But such is the wretched trickery of hole-and- corner Buffery! 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- For a long time some people thought there was trickery. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The remark was so pointed that Caliphronas winced, but at once smiled gayly and replied in the same vein,— Venus and Hermes—Love and Trickery! 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
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