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词源
借自法语 cajoler，可能是中古法语 cageoler (“松鸦鸣叫”)（源自gajole，geai (“松鸦”)的方言指小词） + 古法语 gaioler (“诱至笼中”)的混成词，后者源自中世纪拉丁语 gabiola，源自晚期拉丁语 caveola（其衍生出英语 caveola），拉丁语 cavea (“笼子，畜栏”)的指小词。详见cage、cave、cavum和cavus。
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cajole（第三人称单数简单现在时 cajoles，现在分词 cajoling，一般过去时及过去分词 cajoled）
- (及物, 不及物) 哄骗，诱骗
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, ch. 12:
- Then he cajoled with his brother, and persuaded him what service he had done him.
- 1820, Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot, ch. 27:
- If you are cajoled by the cunning arguments of a trumpeter of heresy, or the praises of a puritanic old woman, is not that womanish?
- 1894, Horatio Alger, Only An Irish Boy, ch. 19:
- He had tried bullying, and without success. He would try cajoling and temptation.
- 1898, Gilbert Parker, The Battle Of The Strong, ch. 37:
- [W]ith eloquent arts he had cajoled a young girl into a secret marriage.
- 1917, Upton Sinclair, King Coal, ch. 8:
- Schulman, general manager of the "G. F. C.," had been sending out messengers to hunt for him, and finally had got him in his office, arguing and pleading, cajoling and denouncing him by turns.
- 2010 August 4, Michael Scherer, "NonSTARTer? Obama's Troubled Nuclear Treaty," Time:
- For weeks, the White House, the Pentagon and Senate Democrats have been working overtime to cajole, convince and placate Republicans.
- 2012年7月13日，Alex Williams，“Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30?”，出自 New York Times[1]:
- But the wife was visibly unimpressed by Ms. Baskin’s half-furnished home (they had just moved in) and thrown-together spaghetti dinner. “It was basically clear that his wife had been cajoled into attending,” said Ms. Baskin, 33. “She settled on to our rickety Ikea kitchen chairs like she was lowering herself into a coal mine.”
- （请为本引文添加中文翻译）
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, ch. 12:
衍生词汇
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cajole
