| 单词 | wangle |
| 释义 | wangleWord family nounwanglerwanglingverbwangle wan·gle /ˈwæŋɡəl/ verb [transitiveT] informalGET to get something, or arrange for something to happen, by cleverly persuading or tricking someone 用巧计获得[安排]；哄骗 wangle something (out of somebody) In the end she wangled an invitation. 最后她搞到了一张请帖。 wangle your way out of/into something I wangled my way into art school. 我设法混进了艺术学校。 Examples from the Corpus wangle• I wangled an interview with her once, in her office on the west end of the island.• Some of them had no doubt spent most of the preceding year trying to wangle an invitation to play in the pro-am.• Gail has wangled it so that we can get in without tickets.• ""They're sending me to Paris next weekend.'' ""How did you manage to wangle that?''• He came to wangle your legacy from you and you refused. wangle something (out of somebody)• Tanner managed to wangle a pay raise out of him.• He came to wangle your legacy from you and you refused.• I wangled an interview with her once, in her office on the west end of the island.• Some of them had no doubt spent most of the preceding year trying to wangle an invitation to play in the pro-am. (1800-1900) Perhaps from waggle |
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