| 单词 | wheedle |
| 释义 | whee·dle I. transitive verb 1. a. < how she wheedled him — W.S.Gilbert > < many of whom had to be wheedled … and coddled for weeks before they could be persuaded — New York Times > b. < wheedles me into feeling fond of her in spite of myself — G.B.Shaw > < no hucksters to wheedle you into buying souvenirs — Frederick Nebel > < had threatened and wheedled hundreds of heathens into Christianity — Vicki Baum > 2. a. < the first move of any politician … was to wheedle the editorial backing of some newspaper — W.A.Swanberg > — usually used with from or out of < wheedle s a couple of dollars house money from him — H.H.Reichard > < wheedled consent from them — C.V.Little > < have scrounged and begged … in an effort to wheedle money out of the American public — A.J.Daley > < young herons … wheedle a meal out of mother after fledging — National Geographic > b. < had wheedled the … woman out of her geraniums — Mary Austin > < wheedle you out of a horse — J.B.Cabell > intransitive verb < when he chose to wheedle, was hard to resist — John Buchan > • - wheedle one's way II. |
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