| 单词 | intrigue |
| 释义 | intrigueWord family nounintrigantintriganteintriguerintrigueadjectiveintriguingadverbintriguingly in·trigue1 /ɪnˈtriːɡ/ ●○○ verb 1 [transitiveT]INTERESTED if something intrigues you, it interests you a lot because it seems strange or mysterious 〔因奇特或神秘而〕激起…的兴趣，引起…的好奇心；迷住 Other people’s houses always intrigued her. 别人的房子总令她好奇。 2 [intransitiveI] formalPLAN to make secret plans to harm someone or make them lose their position of power 密谋；施诡计〔伤害某人或夺去其权位〕 intrigue against While King Richard was abroad, the barons had been intriguing against him. 理查王在国外时，贵族们一直在密谋反对他。 Examples from the Corpus intrigue• While King Richard was abroad, the barons had been intriguing against him.• Specialists were intrigued by a woman who writes upside-down.• The final part of the letter intrigued him greatly.• The thought of experiencing health intrigues me.• One question has particularly intrigued those working on this study. in·trigue2 /ˈɪntriːɡ/ noun [countableC, uncountableU]PLAN the making of secret plans to harm someone or make them lose their position of power, or a plan of this kind 阴谋，密谋；诡计 It’s an exciting story of political intrigue and murder. 那是一个关于政治阴谋和谋杀的故事，扣人心弦。 a web of intrigue (=complicated set of secret plans) 一套阴谋诡计 intrigue of the political intrigues of the capital 首府里的政治阴谋 Examples from the Corpus intrigue• The world of politics is a world of deception and intrigue.• Later she turned to Romantic Suspense of the thriller variety, specializing in tales of international crime, espionage, and intrigue.• Controversy, intrigue, the literary spilling of blood is the very stuff of the Guitarist letters page.• Such was their initiation to the deceptive intrigues of early twentieth-century geopolitics.• His relationships were full of intrigue and conflict.• Silver is caught in a web of political intrigue.• The Board of Health was disbanded in 1858 amid a welter of political intrigue and orchestrated opposition.• Alarmed, Mei-ling and Ei-ling initiated a subtle intrigue designed to keep Stilwell in place.• For one thing, the memoirs of several surviving actors in the drama have appeared with compelling new details of the intrigue.• Given the tone of our conversation and the weather, an entire nexus of unspoken intrigue suddenly surrounded me. web of intrigue• Only after a web of intrigue has been broken are the true culprits revealed. (1600-1700) French intriguer, from Italian intrigare, from Latin intricare; → INTRICATE |
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