| 释义 |
ˈwire-pull, v.
[Back-formation from next.]
trans. To actuate or promote by wire-pulling. Hence ˈwire-pulled ppl. a.
1883St. James's Gaz. 28 Dec. 3/1 The whole company of wire-pulling and wire-pulled Radicals. 1888Engl. Hist. Rev. Oct. 739 The King was but the crank by which Wildman wire-pulled the English royalists. 1896Sir W. Harcourt in Westm. Gaz. 8 May 7/1 They knew that the agitation was conducted, wire-pulled, and financed from the office of the Chartered Company in Capetown. |