ploys

英 [plɔɪz]

美 [plɔɪz]

n.  计谋; 策略; 手法; 花招
ploy的复数

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。

双语例句

• These ploys, they say, served to keep the details of a patent secret while allowing him to broaden its scope to encompass technologies invented and commercialized by others.
  他们指出，这些手段使专利详细内容无法公开，同时让他得以扩大权利围，将其他人所发明及商业化的技术给纳入。
• This was a brazen attempt to create Muslim-Christian tensions, and similar to ploys in Iraq and Pakistan.
  这是一次厚颜无耻的尝试，目的是在穆斯林和基督教之间制造紧张局势，与伊拉克和巴基斯坦的阴谋类似。
• Various ploys are used to try to trip up the machines competing in the Turing test.
  在那次图灵测试中，人们采用了各种手段去让竞争机器出差错。
• Sometimes the ploys work, allowing run-of-the-mill candidates to grab a recruiter's attention and hold it long enough to land a job.
  有时候这些招术很奏效，让普通的应征者抓住了招聘人员的眼球并让吸引力的时间长到足以谋得一职。
• Better ploys are perhaps to ask topical or local questions, or even to discuss in conversation what the weather is like or what color the walls are painted.
  更好的手段也许是问一些专题或当地问题，或者，甚至讨论天气怎么样，或墙上喷了什么颜色。
• Brown thinks confidence plays a major role too. The biggest ploys used by theatrical pickpockets and the kind of street pickpockets that will actually engage with you, is simply an incredibly alluring display of confidence, he says.
  布朗认为自信对扒手也很重要，他说：表演扒手和与你接触的街上扒手最重要的策略是展示出富有魅力而又难以置信的自信。
• She does not shop too much, she is overly susceptible to marketing ploys.
  她不是购物狂，只是太容易被行销广告欺骗。
• Such ploys, whether legal or illegal, have occurred in a world where a high proportion of boardroom pay consists of equity and stock options.
  事实上，董事会薪酬的很大部分由股票和股票期权构成，于是这些手段便自然而然地产生了，不管合法还是非法。
• In the flied of garden art, Islamic gardening art ploys an important role with the unique charm in the world.
  伊新兰庭园造园艺术以其独特的魅力在世界园林艺术领域中占有重要位置。
• These and other soft power ploys have worked in tandem with political arm-twisting.
  在这些软实力技术运作同时，伴之以政治施压。