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单词 stratagem
释义
stratagemstrat‧a‧gem /ˈstrætədʒəm/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINstratagem
Origin:
1400-1500 Italian stratagemma, from Latin, from Greek stratagema, from stratagein ‘to lead an army’, from strategos ‘general’, from stratos ‘army’ + agein ‘to lead’
Examples
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  • A stratagem I learnt early in my life was to hoard every emblem of success and destroy all evidence of failure.
  • A summary of acute therapeutic stratagems is provided in Table 3-4.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • They fell for the stratagem and the plot was resumed.
formal a trick or plan to deceive an enemy or gain an advantage SYN  ploy
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