Wheedle
['wiːd(ə)l] or ['widl]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; 'He palavered her into going along'.
整理:鲁道夫--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax.
(v. t.) To grain, or get away, by flattery.
(v. i.) To flatter; to coax; to cajole.
校對:路易斯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Flatter, cajole, coax, inveigle, humor, court, fawn upon, pay court to.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Coax, cajole, decoy, flatter, entice, inveigle
ANT:Deter, chide, scare, undeceive, disabuse
編輯:梅齐
解釋/意思:
v.t. to entice by soft words: to flatter.—n. a coaxing person.—n. Wheed′ler.—adj. Wheed′lesome coaxing.—n. Wheed′ling.
整理:洛蒂
例句/造句/用法:
- You're an artful little puss to flatter and wheedle your cross old sister in that way. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- To go petting Papa and helping you, just to wheedle you into liking him. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- They looked at the shy deer, and Hermione talked to the stag, as if he too were a boy she wanted to wheedle and fondle. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I see what you are after; but you'll not wheedle me--I am no cat's-paw. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Paul employ to surprise my secret--to wheedle, to threaten, to startle it out of me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Laurie came every day, and wheedled Aunt March till Amy was allowed to go out with him, when they walked and rode and had capital times. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- It is a roundabout wheedling sort of thing which I should not have credited you with. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Governors Both,' returned the man, in what he meant to be a wheedling tone, 'which on you might be Lawyer Lightwood? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
編輯:沃伦