Stratagem

(n.) An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.

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• At last it was secured by stratagem, in the year eight hundred and something. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He effected, by stratagem, the escape of the prisoner. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Isn't that a stratagem? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Can he possibly preserve a right to that character, if by fraud, stratagem, or contrivance, he avoids that payment in whole or in part? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• But the stratagem was defeated by the weather. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The author, by an extraordinary stratagem, prevents an invasion. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• I wonder that my very simple stratagem could deceive so old a SHIKARI, said Holmes. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Gibraltar has stood several protracted sieges, one of them of nearly four years' duration (it failed), and the English only captured it by stratagem. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Stratagem should have been tried, if persuasion failed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The whole object of the stratagem was now disclosed to me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• She simply continued to be mild in her temper, inflexible in her judgment, disposed to admonish her husband, and able to frustrate him by stratagem. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• They thought his life was a stratagem and his death a trick. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Necessity excused stratagem, but stratagem was limited by the dread of offending Dorothea. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• That can only be done by stratagem, and by catching him when he is not surrounded by these people. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• I did,' said the son; and he proceeded to relate, in as few words as possible, how he had fallen a ready dupe to the stratagems of Job Trotter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• All stratagems are fair in love, sir. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Briggs saw the stratagems as clearly as possible. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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