wile

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice plural-normally
    — He was seduced by her wiles.
动词 v.
  1. To entice or lure. transitive
    — He was good to look on, brawly dressed, and with a tongue in his head that would have wiled the bird from the tree.
  2. Misspelling of while (“to pass the time”). alt-of,misspelling
    — Here's a pleasant way to wile away the hours.

词形变化

wiles plural wiles present,singular,third-person wiling participle,present wiled participle,past wiled past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English wile, wyle, from Old Northern French wile (“guile”) and Old English wīl (“wile, trick”) and wiġle (“divination”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą (“craft, deceit”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”)) and Proto-Germanic *wigulą, *wihulą (“prophecy”) (from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to consecrate, hallow, make holy”)). Cognate with Icelandic vél, væl (“artifice, craft, device, fraud, trick”), Dutch wijle. Doublet of guile.
词源 2
The phrase meaning to pass time idly is while away. We can trace the meaning in an adjectival sense for while back to Old English, hwīlen, "passing, transitory". It is also seen in whilend, "temporary, transitory". But since wile away occurs so often, it is now included in many dictionaries.
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