ploy

英 [plɔɪ]

美 [plɔɪ]

n. 计谋; 策略; 手法; 花招

复数：ploys　过去式：ployed　

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.9604 / COCA.11458

牛津词典

noun

计谋；策略；手法；花招
words or actions that are carefully planned to get an advantage over sb else
1. a clever marketing ploy
  机智的销售策略
2. It was all a ploy to distract attention from his real aims.
  那全是障眼法，借以转移对他真实目的的注意。

柯林斯词典

N-COUNT 计策；计谋；手段
Aployis a way of behaving that someone plans carefully and secretly in order to gain an advantage for themselves.
1. Christmas should be a time of excitement and wonder, not a cynical marketing ploy.
  圣诞节应该是兴奋和美妙的时刻，而不该是一种肆无忌惮的营销策略。

英英释义

noun

a maneuver in a game or conversation
Synonym:gambitstratagem
an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker
Synonym:gambit

双语例句

Russia's friendship with China is not just a ploy by their elites.
俄罗斯和中国的友谊不仅仅是它们的精英所布下的策略。
The ploy, of course, is to hook customers early and stay with them as their incomes rise.
它们使用此类招术，当然是希望先勾住消费者，这样在消费者收入增长的时候，就会继续使用它们的产品。
It is too early to judge whether the ploy worked.
要判断这一策略是否有效，目前还为时尚早。
If there's anything more annoying than gloating, it's the lame little ploy we call envy preemption.
如果说什么比幸灾乐祸更令人生气，那就是我们称之为“嫉妒先发制人”的蹩脚小伎俩。
The Iraqi regime has used diplomacy as a ploy to gain time and advantage.
伊拉克政权一直利用外交作为争取时间和优势的策略。
It could be a psychological ploy, or something worse.
他们可能有点心理问题，或者更糟。
What odd psychological ploy does Leoben conoy use against Kara Thrace while she's his prisoner on new caprica?
当里奥本寇诺依在新卡布里卡将卡拉瑟瑞斯囚禁的时候，他用了什么古怪的心理策略？
It is not conceivable that Britons could have been forced to vote a second time ( a standard EU ploy when voters rebel).
很难想象，英国人本可以被迫第二次投票的（一个欧盟对付选民反对时的标准策略）。
This ploy can take all sorts of seemingly innocent guises.
这种策略可以采用各种看上去似乎无害的伪装。
However, if your friend pretends over and over again to try and hit you, you can also enter a habituation learning phase, where you stop flinching, since you realize that it's all just a ploy.
但如果你的朋友总是假装一次又一次的这样做，你也可能进入到习惯性学习阶段，这时你不再退缩，因为你认识到那仅仅是个假象。