guile

FREQ #33492

n. 狡猾, 狡计

发音

其它 /ɡaɪl/

词形变化

guiles 复数 guiled guiles 三单 guiles guiling guiling 现在分词 guiled 过去式 guiled 过去分词

别名

guyle

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.

    诡计

    不可数 可数
  2. 2.

    Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.

    可数 不可数
  3. 1.

    Obsolete form of gold.

    废旧
  4. 2.

    Alternative form of gyle.

v.
  1. 1.

    To deceive, beguile, bewile.

    欺骗

    欺瞒

词汇关系

名词

同义词 10

craft cunning trickery wile craftiness chicane chicanery foxiness shenanigan slyness

上位词 9

deception deceit astuteness disingenuousness dissembling dissimulation perspicaciousness perspicacity shrewdness

下位词 7

fraud hoax humbug dupery fraudulence jugglery put-on

词源

From Middle English gile, from Anglo-Norman gile, from Old French guile (“deception”), from Frankish *wīl (“ruse”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą, from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with wile.

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