小词详解 | wheedle

wheedle 英 [ˈwiːdl] 美 [ˈwiːdl]

• Affable executives dodge almost every attempt to wheedle out useful ways of comparing the firm with its listed peers .
  高管们和蔼可亲，但无论记者如何尝试打探有用的信息来比较沙特阿美和其上市的同业，他们总是顾左右而言他。
  ——《经济学人》
• Once in a while, I hear reporters wheedling or hectoring some reluctant source on the phone, but even that is muted because many younger reporters prefer to text or email sources.
  偶尔，我会听到记者在电话里对一些不情愿的消息来源进行哄骗或威吓，但即便这样也很轻声，因为许多年轻的记者更喜欢发短信或发电子邮件给消息来源。
  ——《纽约时报》

• 连哄带骗使人消气
  coax and wheedle sb into good humour /temper
• 这个聪颖的小孩总是能从父亲那里哄出钱来。
  The smart kid can always wheedle money out of his father.
• 她用花言巧语哄我把华丽的浅黄褐色大衣借给了她。
  She wheedled me into lending her my ornate fawn coat.

Suddenly Amina's assiduity had acquired different goals; she never wheedled money out of him any more, and the napkin in his lap at the breakfast-table felt sad pangs of