sly的意思|sly的解释-里氏词典

sly [slai]

a. 狡猾的, 诡密的, 俏皮的, 偷偷摸摸的

sly
slier, sliest, slyer, slyest

[ adj ]
marked by skill in deception
<adj.all>
cunning men often pass for wisedeep political machinations
a foxy scheme
a slick evasive answer
sly as a fox
tricky Dick
a wily old attorney

Sly \Sly\, a. [Compar. {Slier}or {Slyer}; superl. {Sliest} or
{Slyest}.] [OE. sli, slegh, sleih, Icel. sl?gr, for sl?gr;
akin to Sw. slug, Dan. slu, LG. slou, G. schlau; probably to
E. slay, v.t.; cf. G. verschlagen sly. See {Slay}, v. t., and
cf. {Sleight}.]
1. Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice;
nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; -- in a good
sense.

Be ye sly as serpents, and simple as doves. --Wyclif
(Matt. x. 16).

Whom graver age
And long experience hath made wise and sly.
--Fairfax.

2. Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.

For my sly wiles and subtle craftiness,
The litle of the kingdom I possess. --Spenser.

3. Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy;
subtle; as, a sly trick.

Envy works in a sly and imperceptible manner. --I.
Watts.

4. Light or delicate; slight; thin. [Obs.]

{By the sly}, or {On the sly}, in a sly or secret manner.
[Colloq.] ``Gazed on Hetty's charms by the sly.'' --G.
Eliot.

{Sly goose} (Zo["o]l.), the common sheldrake; -- so named
from its craftiness.

Syn: Cunning; crafty; subtile; wily. See {Cunning}.

Sly \Sly\, adv.
Slyly. [Obs. or Poetic] --Spenser.

The text is minimal, and the downbeat understated illustrations carry most of the story with sly and subtle humour.
In France, his name evokes sly smiles.
Perhaps it is the ironic awareness of rootlessness in the title and the sly jokes about a planet colonised by the transport industry.
It is the third novel starring Simon Quarry, "a reclusive British publisher," who functions on the sly as an ace government hit man.
The picture is especially sly on the subject of romance and tenderness.
Mark Baldwin made witty, emotionally sly dances. We have much to celebrate with such creators, and Channel 4's season of mauvais quarts d'heure from international dance-bores - Tights, Camera, Action - was all the more unworthy.
Classmates still remember his birthday parties, including one at a bowling alley rented for the occasion where Edgar, a fifth-grader, bought cigarettes from a vending machine on the sly.
"Britain is seen as a sly neo-colonialist, `an old fox' much more skilled than the Americans or Russians in politics _ and therefore potentially more dangerous," the letter said.
Encouraged by Mr. Wilder's sly grins, embarrassed grimaces and sputtering rages, the audience gets the joke and begins to laugh before the end of the first act.
Although we'd been haggling over the rate, his gesture was not some sly joke to indicate he thought I wanted too much for my dollars.
"He's a sly fox and he's utterly in Saddam's pocket," said Hans-Heino Kopietz, a London-based Middle East analyst who knows him.
A sly fox in a pinstripe suit, Emilio Naranjo is the Boss, the Mayor Daley of Hispanic northern New Mexico.
Also, although Tone Loc's sly homage to sex, "Wild Thing," last year became the biggest-selling single since "We Are the World," it never made it to No. 1 on the Billboard singles charts because some Top 40 radio stations won't play rap.
One of my maids accused me of being sly because, she said 'I don't know what you're thinking, ever'.
Iranians call him "kuseh," the shark: some say for the political ruthlessness and cunning that lie behind his smile and sly wit, others say for his lack of facial hair, revealing his Mongolian ancestry, in a nation of bearded men.
We are afraid because they are deceitful and sly," he said, referring to Soviet claims that they want to withdraw their estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.
Sergei Dovlatov, a Soviet emigre author who wrote about his homeland with irreverence and sly humor, died of heart disease Friday at age 48.
"Nobody ever catches 'em all _ they're pretty sly _ but it's nothing to catch 1,000 in a night," Voss said.
This is a sly reference to the fact that Charles Saatchi, one of the most active collectors of contemporary art in the world, is a major collector of Julian Schnabel, whose early canvases were studded with broken plates.
He's found himself in a dreary new world (but depicted with sly humor) where a swelling of musical passion is interrupted by a chorus of digital watches bleeping that it's time for a the break required by union rules.
This deceptively simple thriller is sinister and sly, a clever mix of chills and laughs.

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