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inveigler

/in-vey-guhl, -vee-/US // ɪnˈveɪ gəl, -ˈvi- //UK // (ɪnˈviːɡəl, -ˈveɪ-) //

驻外记者,在中国的发展

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    in·vei·gled, in·vei·gling.

    • : to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements: to inveigle a person into playing bridge.
    • : to acquire, win, or obtain by beguiling talk or methods: to inveigle a theater pass from a person.

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Examples

  • No, sir; the policy is to inveigle the people of the North into civil war, by masking the design in smooth and ambiguous terms.

  • Thus the German princess always endeavoured to inveigle the friends of the people.

  • I have spent them in the company of villains, who, for some purpose of their own, are striving to inveigle me in their plots.

  • If I could only inveigle my tormentors into the trap, they might be caught there longer than they liked.

  • After vainly trying to inveigle Locke into a fault, the government resolved to punish him without one.