| 词汇 | example_english_sly |
| 释义 | Examples of slyThese 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. He is extremely sly and duplicitous with those around him. Meanwhile, the upand-coming wave the colon's limp magic wand, without a sly joke to tell. As it is, there is much to admire, whether in sheer compositional dexterity or in the composer's sometimes sly sense of humour. There's a sly sense of disruptive humour not far from the surface, too. They employed, instead, sly ambiguities and insinuating circumlocutions. The editorial voice, assumed at this point by the narrator, carries a sly irony of its own. Because human is the spirit of all things on earth, he is therefore very sly. Historians seem to feel obliged to place a sly construction on all his operations, for fear of being branded naive. Examples may be found from bar 144 in the sweep of both string parts, with their independent accents, or in the cello's sly comments from bars 161 to 165. Anyone who makes a sly or fast buck, who seeks to cheat or to deceive must pay the full penalty of the law, and quickly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is concealing, under his touchiness, mingled occasionally with a little sly humour, the fact that he has not very much to say. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There has been some sly cheating in the disarmament negotiations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All of that is taxation on the sly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Civil servants all over the world are in it on the sly for money. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They would prefer either to borrow money on the sly and let future generations pay, or not to have the services at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not deny the need for reform, but this reform must not be improvised in this way or brought in on the sly. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Moreover, they are sly, cunning and virtuoso at playing a double game. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So they pile on the agony in the sly expectation that most customers will go on paying those extortionate, regressive levies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Are they not, in effect, sly attacks on the mining industry, whose political attitude they object to? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not know whether that was a sly dig at any of his colleagues. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is not a sly scheme to give the diocesans a power under which they could act unreasonably. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If that is not so, it means that an indirect and sly tax is being levied on farmers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not accept the argument that this is perhaps a sly or almost dishonest way of dealing with the unemployment problem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No, he was very astute, cheeky and sly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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