| 词汇 | subterfuge |
| 释义 | subterfuge noun[ C or U ] uk /ˈsʌb.tə.fjuːdʒ/ us /ˈsʌb.tɚ.fjuːdʒ/ a trick or a dishonest way of achieving something: 花招，伎俩;诡计 It was clear that they must have obtained the information by subterfuge.很明显他们一定是靠耍花招弄到了那些资料。 Cheating & tricking anti-fraud bad faith bamboozle bilk blackmail deceive diddle feint flannel funny business game-fixing grift grifter gull gyp prankishly prankster pretext pretextual pull subterfuge | American Dictionarysubterfuge noun[ C/U ] us/ˈsʌb·tərˌfjudʒ/ an action taken to hide something from someone: [ U ]His excuse sounded more like subterfuge than a real reason. Examples of subterfugesubterfuge Archaeologists who have turned their attention to creolization, the seemingly positive side of cultural engagement, have usually performed a sleight-of-hand subterfuge. He enjoyed wearing exotic non-regulation uniforms and had developed a unique surreptitious walk that lent an air of subterfuge to everything that he did. It can only look for subterfuges of antiquity. We had to use constant subterfuge to get it past the mandarins. While this may be subterfuge, one cannot simply assume that it is. All parties appear to gain by denouncing the hypocrisy behind the subterfuge of denying that the con-ict had been a war. Rationing scarce medical resources according to just deserts is not made legitimate by subterfuge. Early reviews on the subject suggested that subterfuge and working around the patient was the only strategy. By appropriating the music of his enemy, he cloaks his subterfuge in flattery. However, this subterfuge is untenable. Hidden documents whose origins are obscure and whose discovery involves subterfuge grab the headlines. In all these circumstances, men sometimes discovered subterfuges in which opposition party agents helped disguise, in one way or another, the ticket they cast at the polls. Lowther's version was that he was merely giving him scope to destroy them himself by his own legal subterfuges. Needless to say, if the expert effect were simply a product of the ascetic impulse, it could be read and discounted as subterfuge or power play. There must be a stop to all the dodging about behind the names of nominees and such subterfuges. 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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