| 词汇 | wangle |
| 释义 | wangle verb[ T ] informaluk /ˈwæŋ.ɡəl/ us /ˈwæŋ.ɡəl/ to succeed in getting or doing something by persuading someone or by being clever in some way: 用计获得;哄骗 I'll be so jealous if you manage to wangle an invitation to his house.假如你能设法弄到一张去他家的请柬，我会非常嫉妒的。 He's only been here two months and already he's managed to wangle his way into the biggest property company in the capital.他到这儿才两个月就已混进首都最大的地产公司了。 If I can think of some excuse to wangle my way out of going tonight I will do!如果我能找个借口今晚不去的话，那我一定不会去！ Synonym finagleUS Getting, receiving and accepting acquirable acquire acquisition awardee carve draw earn get back get out of something get/lay/put your hands on someoneidiom glom onto something/someone go to someone score screw screw something out of someone secure seize seize on/upon something snap something up wangle | American Dictionarywangle verb[ T ] us/ˈwæŋ·ɡəl/ to succeed in obtaining or doing something by not being completely honest in persuading someone to allow it: I wangled an expense-account trip to New York. Examples of wanglewangle I think that that is a fairly good "wangle" —quite a reasonable way of getting round a difficulty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They know that they must wangle one of the drawings from somebody. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is not there a bit of wangling now? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is introducing a new principle as regards compensation, which can be very easily wangled by any owner who wishes to do so. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It can be wangled in every sort of way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now, knowing that the workers have the vote, their game is to see how they can wangle so that they may get their votes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have wangled that by taking more account of economic factors in the indices for the elderly, residential care and social services. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Shopkeepers are therefore fully warned in future that they must "wangle" it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, it was a wangle, but it was a reasonable way of doing things. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The sentence merely suggests that wangling will go on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The coalowners have been deliberately wangling their accounts in order to hide their real financial state. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it by public examination or by wangling; which of the recognised methods is it? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This political wangle is doing nothing else than attempting to discourage what we ought to encourage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It opens the door to discreditable wangles and intrigues of interested parties. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was tried in aircraft factories during the war, and many and devious were the wangles that were used to get round it. 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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