Wangle
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GRE Barron
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[编辑] 解释
[编辑] GRE 红宝书
- v.用巧计或花言巧语获得某事物
- ［英］ v.用巧计或花言巧语获得某事物 ( achieve by cleverness or trick)
- ［例］ He always managed to wangle the easy jobs. ( 他总是设法谋到不费力的活儿)
[编辑] Webster Collegiate
verb (wangled; wangling)
- Etymology: perhaps alteration of waggle
- Date: 1888
- transitive verb
- to resort to trickery or devious methods
- intransitive verb
- 1. to adjust or manipulate for personal or fraudulent ends
- 2. to make or get by devious means ; finagle <wangle an invitation>
- ? wangler noun
