单词 | intrigue |
释义 | in·trigue I. transitive verb 1. archaic 2. < intrigue some bill through the senate — Thornton Wilder > < intrigued their way through ballrooms and bedrooms — Time > < intrigued themselves into office — F.M.Ford > 3. obsolete 4. a. < a tale that intrigues the reader > < an intriguing smile > < became intrigued with sketching children — Newsweek > b. < has become something distinctive enough to intrigue our interest — Charlton Laird > < have intrigued my attention and tightly gripped my fancy — Paul Ives > intransitive verb a. < intrigued and conspired against him to the end — Hilaire Belloc > b. II. 1. obsolete 2. a. < the party politicians … reverted to their familiar intrigues and maneuvers — H.G.Wells > < the intrigues and conspiracies of the middle ages — Edmond Taylor > b. < jealousy and intrigue and backbiting, producing a poisonous atmosphere of underground competition — Bertrand Russell > < ambitious, unscrupulous, and cruel, a master of intrigue — Victor Seroff > 3. < the play rightly shows greater concern for comic intrigue than for human probability — Time > 4. < that hard-to-be-governed passion of youth hurried me frequently into intrigues with low women — Benjamin Franklin > Synonyms: see plot |
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