- 1詭計、欺騙手段（也可指魔術般的花招）
Trickery is the use of tricks to fool people — getting what you want by making someone believe something , rather than by force or by honest asking. It is an uncountable noun: we say 'a lot of trickery', not 'a trickery'. The feeling of the word is usually . If you say a company got customers by trickery, you are accusing them. But the word is lighter than 'fraud' or 'deception' — it carries a hint of cleverness, even of a game, so it also gets used with a smile about magicians, card players, and children who talk their way out of trouble. That double life is the interesting part: 'a bit of trickery' can be almost fond, while 'political trickery' is a hard accusation. It sounds slightly and old-fashioned; in everyday speech people are more likely to say someone 'tricked' them or 'played a trick'.
組成trick + -ery. The ending -ery makes a noun meaning the practice or the whole business of something — so trickery is 'the tricking business'. First written down around 1719.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
trickerynoun/ˈtɹɪ.kə.ɹi/
- 1
Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.
- [H]e did not wrap his rugged subject in silks and ermines, and other sickly trickeries of phrase.
- In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.
- 2
The art of dressing up; imposture, pretense.
- 3
Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
- French winger Hatem Ben Arfa has also taken plenty of plaudits recently and he was the architect of the opening goal with some superb trickery on the left touchline.
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