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单词 to shuffle the cards
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to shuffle the cards
a. To manipulate (the cards in a pack) so as to change their relative position, with the object of preventing the players from knowing the order in which the cards lie. Formerly frequently in allusive use, to shuffle the cards = to manipulate matters.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > be cunning or act cunningly [verb (intransitive)] > manage or manoeuvre
to shuffle the cards1570
to work one's ticketa1599
manoeuvre1801
to work the oracle1823
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Piiv/2 To Shuffle cardes, confundere.
1577 tr. ‘F. de L'Isle’ Legendarie sig. Gviijv Al was but a new practise whereby to shuffle the cardes as we say, and so to heape one discord vpon another.
1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 69 Goe to, shooffell the cardes verie well.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. M3 They fell to dansing..; in a trice so they shuffled the cards of purpose..that..he must tread the measures about with the foulest..fury that might be.
1638 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 5) iii. iii. i. ii. 602 They turned up trumpe, before the Cards were shufled.
1643 E. Bowles Plaine Eng. 17 [They] had shuffled their cards so cunningly as to be out of the reach of law.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 50. ⁋11 He is now shuffling the Cards, and dealing to Timothy.
1717 M. Prior Alma ii. 235 We sure in vain the cards condemn: Ourselves both cut and shuffled them.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 474 To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort, Her mingled suits and sequences.
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux I. i. iv. 44 Let us see if, at sixteen, we cannot shuffle cards, and play tricks with the gamester of thirty.
1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ 139 The cards are.. in their original positions, although they appear to have been perfectly shuffled.
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