词汇 | finessing |
释义 | finessing present participle offinesse finesse verb[ T ] uk /fɪˈnes/ us /fɪˈnes/ to deal with a situation or a person in a skilful and often slightly dishonest way: 巧妙地应对;用策略对付 She finessed the interview by playing down her lack of experience and talking about her long-standing interest in the field.她对自己的经验不足轻描淡写,转而谈论自己对该领域长久以来的兴趣,就这样巧妙地把采访应对过去了。 to improve something so it is the best it can possibly be: 使…达到最好状态 After they'd finessed the software, they followed the people using it for several months.他们在改善软件后跟踪了用户好几个月的时间。 Cheating & tricking anti-fraud bad faith bamboozle bilk blackmail deceive diddle fiddle flannel game-fixing grift grifter gull have an eye to/for the main chanceidiom pretext pretextual pull pull a fast oneidiom pull the wool over someone's eyesidiom racket You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Making things better Examples of finessingfinessing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. They were also more accurate as the movement of the decimal point to the right of a number permitted a high degree of finessing. While these are important ideas for the understanding of this scene, their observations need some finessing. It is an occasion when it is difficult, by doing a little tweaking or finessing, to bring one group into line with the other. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not concerned whether this was avoidance, or evasion, or finessing or flouting of the law. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems to me that we are finessing around fine points when we might go in for afforestation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I felt, as did my colleagues on the committee, as we listened to witnesses, that they were all finessing for position. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When physical corners start finessing it, that's not their style. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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