sleight

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. countable,uncountable
  2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. countable
    — If men have so many sleights to compass their matters, how can the compasser himself hold his fingers?
  3. Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill. countable,uncountable

词形变化

sleights plural

词汇关系

衍生词
sleightful
相关词
sleight of hand sleightly sleighty

词源

From Middle English sleighte, sleyght, sleythe, from Old Norse slœgð (“cunning”), from Proto-Germanic *slōgiþō, from *slōgiz (“cunning”) (whence English sly). Doublet of sly and slöjd/sloyd.
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