| 单词 | artifice |
| 释义 | artifice /ahr"teuh fis/, n. 1. a clever trick or stratagem; a cunning, crafty device or expedient; wile. 2. trickery; guile; craftiness. 3. cunning; ingenuity; inventiveness: a drawing-room comedy crafted with artifice and elegance. 4. a skillful or artful contrivance or expedient. [1525-35; < AF < L artificium craftsmanship, art, craftiness, equiv. to arti-, comb. form of ars ART1 + -fic-, comb. form of facere to DO1, make + -ium + -IUM] Syn. 1. subterfuge. See trick. 2. deception, deceit, art, duplicity. See cunning. |
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