wile

FREQ #39153

n. 诡计, 狡猾 vt. 引诱, 诱骗, 消遣

发音

US /waɪl/

词形变化

wiles 复数 wiles wiles 三单 wiling 现在分词 wiled 过去式 wiled 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice

    诡计

    计策

    He was seduced by her wiles.

    1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London "Anything interesting among your letters, Geoffrey?" asked Miss Tilehurst, concealing a protective curiosity under this sociable wile, since she had already inspected the covers.

v.
  1. 1.

    To entice or lure.

    及物
  2. 1.

    Misspelling of while (“to pass the time”).

    Here's a pleasant way to wile away the hours.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 5

trickery guile chicane chicanery shenanigan

上位词 4

deception deceit dissembling dissimulation

下位词 7

fraud hoax humbug dupery fraudulence jugglery put-on

相关短语

wile away 消磨, 消遣 wile out Wile E. Coyote Wile E. Coyotes Wile E. Coyote-ing Wile E. Coyote'd while away 消磨 wild out

词源

From Middle English wile, wyle, from Old Northern French wile (“guile”) and Old English wīl (“wile, trick”) and wiġle (“divination”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą (“craft, deceit”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”)) and Proto-Germanic *wigulą, *wihulą (“prophecy”) (from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to consecrate, hallow, make holy”)). Cognate with Icelandic vél, væl (“artifice, craft, device, fraud, trick”), Dutch wijle. Doublet of guile.

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