Wheedle

(verb.) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; 'He palavered her into going along'.

整理:鲁道夫

• You're an artful little puss to flatter and wheedle your cross old sister in that way. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• To go petting Papa and helping you, just to wheedle you into liking him. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• They looked at the shy deer, and Hermione talked to the stag, as if he too were a boy she wanted to wheedle and fondle. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I see what you are after; but you'll not wheedle me--I am no cat's-paw. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Paul employ to surprise my secret--to wheedle, to threaten, to startle it out of me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Laurie came every day, and wheedled Aunt March till Amy was allowed to go out with him, when they walked and rode and had capital times. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It is a roundabout wheedling sort of thing which I should not have credited you with. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Governors Both,' returned the man, in what he meant to be a wheedling tone, 'which on you might be Lawyer Lightwood? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

编辑:沃伦