| 词汇 | coax |
| 释义 | coax verb[ T ] uk /kəʊks/ us /koʊks/ to persuade someone gently to do something or go somewhere, by being kind and patient, or by appearing to be: 哄劝;哄骗;劝诱 coax someone into doing somethingPerhaps you could coax your father into taking you to the station.也许你能花言巧语说服父亲带你去车站。 coax someone to do somethingI coaxed her to eat a little bit. A mother was coaxing her reluctant child into the water.一位母亲正在哄劝不情愿的孩子下水。 a coaxing voice诱哄的口气 Synonyms cajole inveigleformal wheedledisapproving to persuade someone to do something persuadeIf she doesn't want to do it, nothing you say will persuade her. convinceThe lawyer convinced the jury of the man's innocence. talk someone intoShe managed to talk me into going along. talk someone out ofI think I've talked him out of leaving the country. dissuadeI tried to dissuade her from leaving. cajoleHe really knows how to cajole people into doing what he wants. to manage to get something to do something, or something to happen, by being very patient and taking great care: be coaxed toStem cells are coaxed to grow into a variety of cells that can be injected into patients. She coaxed the plane in for the landing. Officers helped coax him down from the roof with the assistance of center staff. He has coaxed law enforcement agencies into agreeing to the new protocol. Researchers have coaxed cloned rhesus macaque embryos to grow to the blastocyst stage. Maintaining a proper alkalinity plus frequent wetting and drying cycles can coax soil to retain more carbon dioxide. Urging & persuading ambulance-chasing argumentation badger be/go on at someoneidiom blag blagger get (something) through (to someone) go on hortatory hustle incitation incitement jockey sucker sway uncoerced unconvinced unpersuaded unpersuasive unsalable You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Paying attention and being careful Related wordscoaxing coaxingly Phrasal verbcoax something out of someone coax | American Dictionarycoax verb[ T ] us/koʊks/ to try to persuade someone to do something by gently asking or patiently encouraging the person: He’ll talk if you coax him. Examples of coaxcoax They were in no way coaxed by the military. Where the moderates coaxed, appeased and conciliated, the radicals preferred to cajole, to threaten and to force. Here we concentrated on whether the infant could be coaxed into giving the spatula to the stranger, and simply rated whether this occurred. This means that if central guidelines are to be implemented, lower levels of government must be coaxed or forced to comply. Enmeshed family processes that emotionally pull or coax children into family problems may amplify the impact marital conflict has on children's sense of security. With regard to agricultural biotechnology, institutions and incentives must be developed to coax private companies to focus their efforts on poor developingcountry farmers. The former is the more "archaeological," in that researchers have not tried to coax particular pattern productions. He gracefully coaxes us to abandon a cherished belief: that our actions revolve around willfulness within the conscious universe of the brain/mind. Some operators are better at coaxing the machine than others. As doers actively involved in coaxing machines into doing our bidding, we appreciate the problem. They can only knock and ring bells to coax her out to perform for her eager public. Here, the visual landscape is a veneer, a thin edge drawn over the piled debris of the past that still thwarts attempts to coax the land into fertility and growth. These cells have the ability not only to proliferate in bone but to coax osteoblasts and osteoclasts to produce factors within the bone microenvironment that further stimulate cancer cell growth. Evocatively silhouetted in profile, as artist and instrument seemed for an extended moment to fuse into a single entity, he coaxed some husky, blues-inflected tunings at pianissimo levels. For example, can manipulative mutants producing high quantities of signal be isolated and shown to benefit, at least at low frequency, from coaxing extra cooperation from their neighbours? 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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