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单词 wangle
释义
wangle
verb[T]
informal
uk
/ˈwæŋ.ɡəl/us
/ˈwæŋ.ɡəl/
tosucceedin getting or doing something bypersuadingsomeone or by beingcleverin some way:
用计获得；哄骗
I'll be sojealousif youmanageto wangle aninvitationto hishouse.假如你能设法弄到一张去他家的请柬，我会非常嫉妒的。
He's only been here twomonthsand already he'smanagedto wanglehis way intothebiggestpropertycompanyin thecapital.他到这儿才两个月就已混进首都最大的地产公司了。
If I canthinkof someexcuseto wanglemy way out ofgoingtonightI will do!如果我能找个借口今晚不去的话，那我一定不会去！
Synonym
finagleUS
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Getting, receiving and accepting
  • acquire
  • acquisition
  • awardee
  • carve
  • carvesomethingout (foryourself)
  • draw
  • earn
  • fill
  • get out ofsomething
  • get/lay/putyourhands onsomeoneidiom
  • glom ontosomething/someone
  • go tosomeone
  • honoree
  • score
  • screwsomethingout ofsomeone
  • secure
  • seize
  • seize on/uponsomething
  • snapsomethingup
  • snatch
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(Definition ofwanglefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

wangle| American Dictionary

wangle
verb[T]
us
/ˈwæŋ·ɡəl/
tosucceedinobtainingor doing something by not beingcompletelyhonestinpersuadingsomeone toallowit:
I wangled an expense-accounttripto New York.
(Definition ofwanglefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwangle

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I think that that is a fairly good "wangle" —quite a reasonable way of getting round a difficulty.
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They know that they mustwangleone of the drawings from somebody.
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Is not there a bit of wangling now?
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It is introducing a new principle as regards compensation, which can be very easily wangled by any owner who wishes to do so.
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It can be wangled in every sort of way.
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Now, knowing that the workers have the vote, their game is to see how they canwangleso that they may get their votes.
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They have wangled that by taking more account of economic factors in the indices for the elderly, residential care and social services.
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Shopkeepers are therefore fully warned in future that they must "wangle" it.
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In other words, it was awangle, but it was a reasonable way of doing things.
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The sentence merely suggests that wangling will go on.
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The coalowners have been deliberately wangling their accounts in order to hide their real financial state.
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Is it by public examination or by wangling; which of the recognised methods is it?
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This politicalwangleis doing nothing else than attempting to discourage what we ought to encourage.
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It opens the door to discreditable wangles and intrigues of interested parties.
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It was tried in aircraft factories during the war, and many and devious were the wangles that were used to get round it.
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