词汇 | ploy |
释义 | ploy noun[ C ] uk /plɔɪ/ us /plɔɪ/ something that is done or said in order to get an advantage, often dishonestly: 计谋,策略;手法,花招 There are various ploys we can use if necessary.必要的话,我们可以用各种手段。 [ + to infinitive ]He only said he had a meeting as a ploy to get her to leave.他说他有一个会议要参加,只是为了把她支开。 Plotting & trapping be in league with someoneidiom cahoots catch someone out chemtrail chicanery conspiracy conspiracy theorist conspiracy theory conspirator conspire insinuate machination outplot plotter pretext pretextual put-up job sting what's your game?idiom wheeze You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Cheating & tricking ploy | American Dictionaryploy noun[ C ] us/plɔɪ/ something that is done or said, often dishonestly, in order to get an advantage; a trick: a marketing ploy Examples of ployploy But the success of this ploy is only partial. Narratives are seen, then, both as rhetorical ploys (disguising genuine selves) and as the very thing that guarantees our ability to have selves. The ploy, of course, backfires because although such a strategy may build up wealth it does so at the expense of a man's honour. What was once a respectable culture is now just viewed as a marketing ploy. One of the common ploys of the girl-group repertory is a game of musical leapfrog. The reverse side of the poster is another marketing ploy. The conventional spellings of these words have been simplified or altered to create a visual novelty effect or enhance an attention-getting ploy. But without allocating increased resources to controlling unregulated movement into the towns, such ploys were unlikely to be effective. If this was her ploy, it was successful. It is a standard rhetorical ploy to attribute one's ideas to someone respected who can lend weight to the controversial proposal. But the consistent focus of the magazine suggests that the perilous state of men is more than a rhetorical ploy. Consequently, the discourse on urban conditions within the academy has been tainted by the failure of this ideological ploy by the profession. It would have been a better negotiating ploy than the one actually used. This is nothing if not original, and it is an arresting ploy. The ploy may have helped, but not much. 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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