trick

trick 英[trɪk]

美[trɪk]

n. 恶作剧; 戏法，把戏; 计谋，诀窍; 骗局;

vt. 哄骗，欺骗; 打扮;

adj. 弄虚作假的; 有诀窍的; 欺诈的;

[例句]Someone had played a trick on her, stretched a piece of string at the top of those steps.

有人搞恶作剧整她，在最高的台阶上拉了一根绳子。

[其他] 第三人称单数：tricks 复数：tricks 现在分词：tricking 过去式：tricked 过去分词：tricked

1. N-COUNT

可数名词

诡计;花招;骗局 A trick is an action that is intended to deceive someone. 

• We are playing a trick on a man who keeps bothering me.

  我们正在戏弄那个一直烦我的家伙。

• 2. VERB

  动词

  欺骗;哄骗 If someone tricks you, they deceive you, often in order to make you do something. 

  【语法信息】：V n

  【语法信息】：V n into -ing/n

  【语法信息】：V way prep/adv

• Stephen is going to be pretty upset when he finds out how you tricked him...

  如果斯蒂芬发现你怎样欺骗了他，他会非常气愤。

• His family tricked him into going to Pakistan, and once he was there, they took away his passport...

  家人骗他去了巴基斯坦，等到他一到那里，他们就拿走了他的护照。

• His real purpose is to trick his way into your home to see what he can steal.

  他的真实目的就是设局欺骗你以进入你的家里，看看他可以偷走什么。

• 3. N-COUNT

  可数名词

  把戏;绝技 A trick is a clever or skilful action that someone does in order to entertain people. 

• He shows me card tricks.

  他表演纸牌戏法给我看。

• 4. N-COUNT

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  窍门;诀窍;技巧 A trick is a clever way of doing something. 

• Tiffany revamped her sitting room with simple decorative tricks.

  蒂法尼采用简单的装饰技巧将起居室翻新。

• It is not just a little trick you can pick up in half an hour.

  这不是你半个小时就能学会的小窍门。

• 5. See also: confidence trick; conjuring trick; hat-trick;  

  6. PHRASE

  短语

  奏效;达到目的 If something does the trick, it achieves what you wanted. 

  【搭配模式】：V inflects

  【语域标签】：INFORMAL 非正式

• Sometimes a few choice words will do the trick.

  有时说几句尖酸刻薄的话就有人听了。

• 7. PHRASE

  短语

  千方百计;浑身解数;所有的办法 If someone tries every trick in the book, they try every possible thing that they can think of in order to achieve something. 

  【搭配模式】：v PHR

  【语域标签】：INFORMAL 非正式

• Companies are using every trick in the book to stay one step in front of their competitors.

  各公司想方设法地保持比竞争者领先一步的优势。

• 8. PHRASE

  短语

  灯光造成的幻觉 If you say that something is a trick of the light, you mean that what you are seeing is an effect caused by the way that the light falls on things, and does not really exist in the way that it appears. 

  【搭配模式】：v-link PHR

• Her head appears to be on fire but that is only a trick of the light.

  她的头部看上去像是着火了，但那只是灯光造成的幻觉。

• 9. PHRASE

  短语

  无所(不)知;无事(不)晓;把握住任何机会 If you say that someone does not miss a trick, you mean that they always know what is happening and take advantage of every situation. 

  【搭配模式】：V inflects

  【语域标签】：INFORMAL 非正式

• When it comes to integrating their transport systems, the French don't miss a trick.

  法国人从不放过任何整合其交通系统的机会。

• 10. PHRASE

  短语

  （行业）诀窍,门道，绝活 The tricks of the trade are the quick and clever ways of doing something that are known by people who regularly do a particular activity. 

  【搭配模式】：trick inflects

• To get you started, we have asked five successful writers to reveal some of the tricks of the trade.

  为了让你开始写作，我们邀请了 5 位成功作家向你透露一些写作秘诀。

• 11. PHRASE

  短语

  故伎重演;耍老花招 If you say that someone is up to their tricks or up to their old tricks, you disapprove of them because they are behaving in the dishonest or deceitful way in which they typically behave. 

  【搭配模式】：v-link PHR

  【语用信息】：disapproval

  【语域标签】：INFORMAL 非正式

• I have no respect for my father who, having remarried, is still up to his old tricks.

  我对父亲没任何敬意，他已经再婚，却依然喜欢耍老把戏。

• 12.   you can't teach an old dog new tricks→see: dog;