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单词 manipulative
释义
manipulative
adjective
disapproving
uk
/məˈnɪp.jə.lə.tɪv/us
/məˈnɪp.jə.lə.t̬ɪv/
A manipulativepersontriestocontrolpeopletotheiradvantage:
试图控制他人的，有控制欲的
Even as achildshe was manipulative andknewhow to get her own way.她还是个孩子的时候就喜欢控制他人，知道如何达到目的。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Controlling and being in charge
  • aggrandize
  • assume
  • assumption
  • authoritative
  • authoritatively
  • commanding
  • dictate
  • guiding principle
  • harness
  • have (got)someoneby the short and curliesidiom
  • havesomeoneby the ballsidiom
  • havesomeoneeating out ofyourhandidiom
  • helm
  • override
  • police
  • policing
  • possess
  • power play
  • predominate
  • skipper
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(Definition ofmanipulativefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

manipulative| American Dictionary

manipulative
adjective
us
/məˈnɪp·jə·lə·t̬ɪv,-ˌleɪ·t̬ɪv/
tendingtoinfluenceorcontrolsomeone or something toyouradvantage, often without anyoneknowingit:
He isresourceful,smart,skillful,ingenious, andsavvy, but he also can be manipulative.
(Definition ofmanipulativefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmanipulative

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Separate areas provided opportunities for housekeeping, blocks, puzzles, games, and precast andmanipulativetoy play activities, as well as an option for individual reading.
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Women also use ai withmanipulativepredicates in request-type acts.
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Manipulativecrying would then be a conditioned, merely "unconscious" reflex.
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Soltis addresses the issue of the communicative content of crying in terms of honest signaling of need or vigor, ormanipulativesignaling.
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Most of what has happened in human genetics in the last ten years has been the result of the astonishingmanipulativepower of molecular biology.
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Interaction and communication among animals are often deceptive andmanipulative, as well as cooperative.
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Additionally, the interaction between gender andmanipulativeexploration was statistically significant.
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Both types of information and structure may be held simultaneously to facilitate the differentmanipulativeand generative purposes of the designer.
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This stance towards the past is not simply a rationalising ormanipulativerewriting of it by the people who gain power.
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Crying for proximity is not necessarilymanipulative, therefore, but may contribute to infant survival.
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Howmanipulativeis this, with or without consent, and, ifmanipulative, is it unethical?
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Nursery activities included free play and some structured activities, including storytelling, singing songs,manipulativeactivities, and gross motor activities.
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Given themanipulativedomain of this planner, these parameters are either an object name or a location name or both.
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To what extent does science, if it is interpreted to be interventionistic, have anything to do with nature and not merely with ourmanipulativepowers?
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The recruitment consequences of this pattern were investigated usingmanipulativeexperiments and observations.
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