| 释义 |
‖ rusé, a. (and n.)|ryze|
Also fem. rusée, pl. rusés.
[Fr.]
Given to ruses, sly, cunning; deceitful, deceptive. Also as n.
1761G. Colman Jealous Wife iii. 45 Your Ladyship, I hope, has no Objections to my being a little rusé, for I must have Her, 'pon Honour. 1847Disraeli Tancred II. iv. iii. 189 Aberdeen and Sir Peel will never give her this advice; their habits are formed. They are too old, too rusés. 1889G. Meredith Let. 20 Sept. (1970) II. 980 Rusée that you are! 1903A. Bennett Truth about Author i. 8, I..ordered the old rusé self to exploit the self just born. 1923G. Atherton Black Oxen viii. 33 She was certainly rusée. 1938H. G. Wells Apropos of Dolores ii. 31 We hunted for five of the most rusé tennis balls I have ever known... They changed colour according to their surroundings. 1940G. Arthur Concerning Winston Spencer Churchill 143 It was a most successful, if rather rusé, coup, but when anyone spoke of it as a military measure Kitchener would always say that Winston Churchill must have a large share of the credit. 1955A. L. Rowse Expansion of Elizabethan England x. 399 As a commander, he [sc. Sir Francis Vere] was exceedingly rusé. 1968Listener 13 June 779/1 The values are unsurprising—the baby, the reliable if rusé Italian director, the true choice at the end. 1973C. M. Woodhouse Capodistria v. 110 They constantly used of him [sc. Capodistria] the conventional epithets which seemed to fit his nationality—wily, rusé, supple, crafty. |