Ambition in the regions of a despotic and luxurious court was but the contest of flattery and craft . 在一个专制和奢侈的宫廷里，雄心变成了争先恐后的阿谀逢迎和玩弄手腕。
Her faith in his sincerity was so complete that she was incapable of suspecting that he was playing with her . 她完全相信他是真诚的，因而不可能怀疑他在跟她玩弄什么花招。
He played cat and mouse. in response to my requests he agreed to a looser clause on replacement of weapons . 他玩弄捉迷藏的把戏。应我的请求，他同意放宽关于替换武器的规定。
Norris himself argued that the true romance lay in realism, and he was not merely playing with words . 诺里斯也认为真正的浪漫主义寓于现实主义之中，他这样说并非仅仅在玩弄文字。
What they cannot defeat by reason and argument they obstruct by delay and legalistic guile . 凡是他们不能通过理智和辩论战胜的东西，他们便采用拖延的办法和玩弄法律的手段来加以阻挠。
Nixon remarked resignedly to me that he was playing chicken and that we had probably no choice except to turn on him . 尼克松无可奈何地对我说，他在玩弄威协手段，我们大概没有其他办法，只能和他斗。
"i suppose it seems to you," said the doctor, laughing, "that in so doing i should play your brother a very shabby trick. " “你大概觉得，”医生笑了笑说，“我这样做对你兄弟是玩弄了一个卑劣的花招。”
"that was a sweet little play upon words," warrington remarked, with a puff. "amory-amori. it showed profound scholarship. " “你玩弄文字的本领还不小，”沃林顿喷了一口烟，说道。“艾默里--艾默莉。嗯，不错，很会咬文嚼字。”
