intrigue

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 ĭn'trēg

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to affect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem. countable,uncountable
    — […] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]
  2. The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters. countable,uncountable
  3. Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair. countable,uncountable
    — I often used to smile at a young Ensign of the Guards, who always popped [pawned] his sword and watch when he wanted cash for an intrigue; […]
动词 v.
  1. To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme. intransitive
  2. To arouse the interest of; to fascinate. transitive
    — Scenic illusions such as those caused by the haze, or the apparent diminution of scale where everything was enormous, intrigued Dutton.
  3. To have clandestine or illicit intercourse. intransitive
  4. To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate. transitive
    — And as wililye as thoſe ſhrewes that beguyle hym haue holpe hym to inuolue and intryke the matter: I ſhall vſe ſo playn and open a way therin, that euery man ſhall well ſee the trouth.

词形变化

intrigues plural entrigue alternative,obsolete intrigues present,singular,third-person intriguing participle,present intrigued participle,past intrigued past entrigue alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
counterintrigue palace intrigue outintrigue
相关词
intricacy intricate intriguer intriguery intriguing intriguingly

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French intrigue, from Italian intricare, from Latin intrīcō (“to entangle, perplex, embarrass”). Doublet of intricate.
词源 2
Borrowed from French intrigue, from Italian intricare, from Latin intrīcō (“to entangle, perplex, embarrass”). Doublet of intricate.
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