chicanery

• n. 狡辯；欺騙；強詞奪理

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chicanery (n.)

c. 1600, "legal quibbling, sophistry," from French chicanerie "trickery," from Middle French chicaner "to pettifog, quibble" (15c.), which is of unknown origin, perhaps from Middle Low German schikken "to arrange, bring about," or from the name of a golf-like game once played in Languedoc. Thornton's "American Glossary" has shecoonery (1845), which it describes as probably a corruption of chicanery.

1. We still do; living in a world in which underclared aggression, war, hypocrisy, chicanery, anarchy and impending immolation are part of our daily lives, we all want a code to live by.

我們仍然有這種感覺; 生活在一個不宣而戰的侵略 、 戰爭 、 虛偽 、 詐騙 、 混亂以及迫在眉睫的殺戮充斥著我們日常生活的世界裏, 我們都想有一種能賴以生存的準則.

來自《用法詞典》

2. The world is full of chicanery.

這個世界充滿了詐騙.

來自辭典例句

3. Why are you give me so much chicanery as a explanation?

你為什麽給我那麽多狡辯的解釋?

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4. Some think more legal chicanery may be in store.

有人認為,或許以後還有更高明的法律騙局.

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5. I'm too an at using chicanery to accomplish my mission.

我尤其善用詭計,從而圓滿完成任務.

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