Learn a word a day-【GRE】"wheedle"啥意思?

wheedle [ˈwi:dl] v.哄骗;劝诱

  If you say that someone wheedles, you mean that they try to persuade someone to do or give them what they want, for example by saying nice things that they do not mean.

There are two syllables in this word:

whee-dle.

EXAMPLES

  1. The kids can always wheedle money out of their father.

  孩子们总是能从父亲那里哄出钱来。

  2. She wheedled me into lending her my new coat.

  她用花言巧语哄我把新大衣借给了她。

  

  

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covet [ˈkʌvət] v. 渴望;贪求;觊觎

  If you covet something, you strongly want to have it for yourself,especially something that belongs to someone else.

There are two syllables in this word:

co-vet.

EXAMPLES

  1. She covets her sister's house.

  她很想得到她姐姐的房子。

  

  《十诫》之一:你不可贪图

  2. No, he covets. That is his nature.

  不是(这个杀人动机),而是贪婪。这是他的本性。

  (选自电影《沉默的羔羊》台词)

  

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