| 词汇 | artifice |
| 释义 | artifice noun[ C or U ] formaluk /ˈɑː.tɪ.fɪs/ us /ˈɑːr.t̬ə.fɪs/ (the use of) a clever trick or something intended to deceive: 诡计;奸计;欺骗 Amazingly for Hollywood, she seems almost entirely without artifice.尽管身处好莱坞，可她好像从不耍什么阴谋诡计，真是让人惊诧。 Synonym ruse Lies, lying & hypocrisy a pack of liesidiom bad faith black is whiteidiom cakeism canard falsification feed someone a lineidiom fib fiction flimflam lie mythologize perjure perjury polygraph someone can talk!idiom stretch the truthidiom weasel words white lie whopper Examples of artificeartifice In the elegant concealing of her own intellectual and rhetorical artifice she honours by imitation the modesty of her subjects. Sulzer, he argued, was wrong to demand that students practice 'in all possible artifices of harmony'. This attention to the garden's artifice constantly threatens to disrupt the texts' "naturalizing" project, repoliticizing the garden and women's activities therein. Yet other groups are united by a commonality, due to nature or artifice, that does affect how they themselves behave. Integrity, then, encompasses more than is suggested by the artifice embodied by the civil liability framework relevant to consent to medical care. In comparison to the finely strung artifice of the other songs discussed, this song adheres to a rhetoric of natural, direct expression. This produces a natural wall surface without the artifice of modern paints. By contrast, these women embrace artifice and selffashioning, and many of them associate feminism with limitation not freedom. The passage emphasises lack of dramatic artifice, and an unbroken and self-contained musical continuity supplied by the orchestra and projected onto the vocal lines. The state, as a work of artifice, can be well or ill made. Read quickly, this definition seems to restrict artifice to those who act at another's behest. In this way, despite all their contrapuntal artifices, he achieves a popular style and is agreeable to every amateur. The green carnation was a symbol, meant to confirm the wearer's interest in artifice. Here we return to the impossibility of distancing so-called manipulated artifice from the present understanding of pain. There appears to be an element of artifice in the literary form. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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