| 词汇 | wangled |
| 释义 | wangled past simple and past participle ofwangle 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 acceptance 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 seize seize on/upon something snap something up Examples of wangledwangled In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. 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 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 I have little doubt that expense accounts are "wangled". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Figures have been read out to-night and there has not been any attempt to disprove them, although they have been "wangled" a bit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have something that they really believe in, and they cannot be wangled out of it by some trick solution which everybody sees through. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The way in which the voting was "wangled" did not give them the opportunity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Up to the early 1980s, the service's success tended to be measured by how big a budget could be wangled from the centre and how quickly it could be spent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a wangled price—wangled by the millers and importers, simply because they were set free to spend our currency upon overseas imports first of all. 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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