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单词 ploy
释义
ploy
noun[C]
uk
/plɔɪ/us
/plɔɪ/
something that is done or said inorderto get anadvantage, oftendishonestly:
计谋，策略；手法，花招
There arevariousploys we canuseifnecessary.必要的话，我们可以用各种手段。
[+ to infinitive]He only said he had ameetingas a ploytoget her toleave.他说他有一个会议要参加，只是为了把她支开。
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(Definition ofployfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

ploy| American Dictionary

ploy
noun[C]
us
/plɔɪ/
something that is done or said, oftendishonestly, inorderto get anadvantage; atrick:
amarketingploy
(Definition ofployfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofploy

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But the success of thisployis only partial.
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Narratives are seen, then, both as rhetorical ploys (disguising genuine selves) and as the very thing that guarantees our ability to have selves.
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Theploy, of course, backfires because although such a strategy may build up wealth it does so at the expense of a man's honour.
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What was once a respectable culture is now just viewed as a marketingploy.
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One of the common ploys of the girl-group repertory is a game of musical leapfrog.
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The reverse side of the poster is another marketingploy.
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The conventional spellings of these words have been simplified or altered to create a visual novelty effect or enhance an attention-gettingploy.
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But without allocating increased resources to controlling unregulated movement into the towns, such ploys were unlikely to be effective.
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If this was herploy, it was successful.
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It is a standard rhetoricalployto attribute one's ideas to someone respected who can lend weight to the controversial proposal.
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But the consistent focus of the magazine suggests that the perilous state of men is more than a rhetoricalploy.
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Consequently, the discourse on urban conditions within the academy has been tainted by the failure of this ideologicalployby the profession.
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It would have been a better negotiatingploythan the one actually used.
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This is nothing if not original, and it is an arrestingploy.
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Theploymay have helped, but not much.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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