a sleight of hand
基本解釋
- 魔術(shù)，戲法；手法熟練
英漢例句
- Mr Straw, your claims are a sleight of hand.
斯特勞，你的索賠是一個(gè)花招。 - Mr Huckabee says a rate of 23% would suffice, but this is a sleight of hand.
Huckabee先生說(shuō)23％的稅率足夠了，但是這里耍了一點(diǎn)小手腕。 - The application Dr van der Linde made would have steered clear of this problem through a small sleight of hand.
Linde博士的這份申請(qǐng)?jiān)噲D耍個(gè)“小花招”讓問(wèn)題變得明朗。 - Socrates wins the argument in Book I with a kind of, you might even say, sleight of hand.
蘇格拉底贏(yíng)得了第一冊(cè)的辯論,你可能會(huì)說(shuō)，這個(gè)作法是花招。
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 政治哲學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選 - Republicans rammed through Bush's big marginal tax rate cuts in 2001 with a bit of sleight of hand.
FORBES: If only we knew who they were. - He wants to cut personal and corporate income taxes to 9%, abolish most other federal taxes, and make up for the lost revenue with a 10% sales tax (billed as 9% thanks to a mathematical sleight of hand).
ECONOMIST: The presidential race - Suleiman has a keen eye and ear for the telling detail, but, like the acrobat he shows rehearsing in a Jerusalem parking lot, he is a master of sleight of hand: he constructs his film disingenuously around the politics that he omits.
NEWYORKER: Chronicle of a Disappearance