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schemer

/skee-mer/US // ˈski mər //

策划者,谋士,策划人,谋划者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : someone who devises plans or plots, especially underhanded ones:She is one of the memorable characters in literature, a born schemer and social climber unencumbered by any need to tell the truth.

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Examples

  • Galvanized by the antiwar movement and the horror of Bloody Sunday in 1972, Dugdale began to involve herself in schemes supporting the IRA.

  • I’ve seen firsthand how importation schemes can put patients at risk.

  • Investigators working on Amazon’s behalf were able to confirm the scheme by placing orders through the links and receiving the advertised counterfeit goods.

  • Defensive players have often talked this season about the difficulty of the transition from the 3-4, two-gapping scheme under former coordinator Greg Manusky to the 4-3, attacking scheme of current coordinator Jack Del Rio.

  • He wants to build a 200-room tourist hotel on the Opgard grazing land, and his scheme is to finance the project with local villagers putting up their property as collateral.

  • Is that mass of cream cheese you put on a bagel a schemer or a shmeer?

  • And, second, how can he bust a drug dealer and a Ponzi schemer without endangering Rita and Mitzi?

  • Mansfield Frazier predicted the convicted schemer would be king of the prison yard long before he became an inmate.

  • Whether you're the masculine monster in this story or the feminine schemer, you're a dehumanized cartoon.

  • In the strange case of alleged Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford, a new bit player has emerged.

  • But, glad as was the schemer, his delight and sense of freedom were much inferior to those of his misguided and unlucky partner.

  • The revolution of Aranjuez was a bitter disappointment to the great schemer, and disconcerted his plans.

  • With the intuition of a born schemer Mina seized on the chance.

  • He was the schemer-in-chief; and the others, while disliking him heartily, were content to rely on his superior cunning.

  • The boy spoke eagerly, but the more wily schemer shook his head with positiveness.