guile

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception. uncountable
    — It was a result that owed a lot to a moment of guile from Ramires but more to a display of guts from the Brazilian and his team-mates after Terry's needless dismissal eight minutes before half-time for driving a knee into the back of Alexis Sanchez off the ball.
  2. Obsolete form of gold. alt-of,obsolete
  3. Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty. countable,uncountable
    — Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
  4. Alternative form of gyle. alt-of,alternative
动词 v.
  1. To deceive, beguile, bewile.
    — Who means no guile, be guiled soonest shall

词形变化

guiles plural guiles present,singular,third-person guiling participle,present guiled participle,past guiled past

词汇关系

衍生词
guiler guilesome

词源

词源 1
From Middle English gile, from Anglo-Norman gile, from Old French guile (“deception”), from Frankish *wīl (“ruse”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą, from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with wile.
词源 2
Variant forms.
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