Beguile

(v. t.) To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.

(v. t.) To elude, or evade by craft; to foil.

(v. t.) To cause the time of to pass without notice; to relieve the tedium or weariness of; to while away; to divert.

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• But there was no harm in his way of saying this: it was said laughingly, and to beguile the time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The rosy hours were thus beguiled until it was time for Bella to have Pa's escort back. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The clerks had not arrived yet, and he beguiled the time by looking out of the staircase window. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She was an angel beguiled. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Phineas seemed, on the whole, the briskest of the company, and beguiled his long drive with whistling certain very unquaker-like songs, as he went on. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The women (excepting Penelope) beguiled the time by talking of Rosanna's suicide. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Mr. Cruncher beguiled the earlier watches of the night with solitary pipes, and did not start upon his excursion until nearly one o'clock. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• A dense justice in a corner is beguiled into a wink. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• They talked of many subjects (his partner never had had such a ready store to draw upon for the beguiling of the time), and so to bed, and to sleep. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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