formalTRICK/DECEIVE a trick or plan to deceive an enemy or gain an advantage 〔蒙蔽敌人或谋取利益的〕计谋，策略，花招SYN ploy
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stratagem• A stratagem I learnt early in my life was to hoard every emblem of success and destroy all evidence of failure.• As soon as things get tough our enemies have a clever stratagem.• His stratagem was to cross Riverside Drive and enter the first building, as if he lived there.• Actually, neither stratagem is likely to do much.• As a partial solution, Combined Fleet decided to resort to a special stratagem that had already worked successfully once before.• They fell for the stratagem and the plot was resumed.• A summary of acute therapeutic stratagems is provided in Table 3-4.
Originstratagem
(1400-1500)Italianstratagemma, from Latin, from Greekstratagema, from stratagein“to lead an army”, from strategos“general”, from stratos“army” + agein“to lead”