Unfortunately, the ploy didn’t work.
不幸的是，这一招没有奏效。
This time, however, the ploy backfired.
然而，这一次该策略看来是适得其反了。
The ploy never quite seems to fit, though.
尽管这种伎俩似乎不是什么时候都很适合。
It was a kind of procedure through self-satisfaction using the ploy of true-life.
而是以一种写实的手法获得自我满足的过程。
The suspect had packed the shorts with the drug and the ploy seemed to be going well until he was stopped and searched at Barcelona airport yesterday.
这位主人公在自己的短裤里塞满了毒品，一切似乎都进行的很顺利直到昨天他被要求停下来在巴塞罗那机场接受检查。
The ploy worked well for them for 44 minutes - and they even had a decent chance very early on for Custodio - but it made for a tedious game to watch.
这个战术在前44分钟内进行得很好——他们甚至在刚开场时有非常好的机会让库斯托迪奥破门——但是这也让比赛变得很沉闷。
Unlike other spammers he was happy to talk to the media about his activities, but the ploy backfired in 2002 when his address was posted on the Internet.
与其他垃圾邮件发送者不同，他很乐意告诉媒体自己的行为，但他的花招在2002年砸了自己的脚：他的地址被贴到了网络上。
‘Green’ fur is also a marketing ploy: the animals come from commercial farms that generate industrial amounts of animal waste and offal; their fur is processed using polluting toxic chemicals.
“环保”毛皮同时也是一个市场策略：这些动物都是来自于营利性农场，这些农场不断耗费动物资源和产生大量动物垃圾；这些毛皮都是经过有毒的化学品处理的。
Years later, as a marketing ploy, Dr Metcalfe thought it wise to pinpoint the birth of Ethernet.
几年后，作为一项营销策略，梅特卡夫博士认为应该将以太网的研发提上日程。
Some believe these sales are simply the result of the art world's latest marketing ploy.
有些人认为这些销量只是源于近期艺术界的市场营销策略。
Apart from being a clever marketing ploy, it was identical (down to the the barley's DNA, interestingly) to terrestrial beer.
除了有个聪明的营销策略之外，它完全和地球上的啤酒没有两样(有趣的是就连这种大麦的DNA都与地球上的完全一样)。
Offering the agency the moon tomorrow—complete with all the flashy new hardware required to get people and materials up there—in exchange for a shuttle-retirement plan today would be a clever ploy.
给宇航局明天的月亮，连同所有将人和材料送上月球所需要的那些新的华而不实的硬件，以换琅目前的飞船退休计划会是一个很聪明的手段。
An insider jokes that Morgan's underperformance relative to Goldman is a public-relations ploy to ensure that the firm remains more popular than its rival.
一个业内人士开玩笑称，摩根相对于高盛来说业绩不佳，这是一个公共关系策略以继续保证公司比其竞争对手更加受欢迎。
The vanity sizing ploy has long been used by women's fashion chains.
这种虚示尺寸的策略已经被长期应用于女性时尚连锁店。
The absence of any of these four factors should be a red flag that the so-called report could really be a pump and dump marketing ploy.
这四个因素少了哪一项都应该是危险信号：所谓的研究报告可能真的是一个拉高出货的市场计谋。
But his ploy sparked a large police manhunt with officers and sniffer dogs combing the streets for his attacker.
但他的策略引起警方出动大量警察和警犬在街上寻找攻击他的人。
Rachel is convinced that Danny likes her and that his apparent apathy toward her is just a ploy to gain the upper hand in their relationship.
瑞秋认定丹尼为她钟情，并认为他欲擒故纵只是想在关系中占据上风而已。
Department of Justice filing claimed that Apple's argument-that unlocking the phone would weaken its encryption protections-was a marketing ploy to strengthen its business model.
司法部指出，苹果公司有关解锁手机会削弱其加密保护的争辩实际上是一种加强商业模式的市场策略。
This could be a ploy to increase the chances of Paris playing a role as an offshore center for the Chinese currency.
这可能是巴黎为增加其成为人民币离岸中心可能性的一种策略。
However, Japan has never bought European fighters, and some say interest in the Eurofighter is nothing more than a ploy.
然而日本之前还没购买过欧洲战机，有些人说对欧洲战机感兴趣只不过是一种手段而已。
Nothing focuses the mind quite like a deadline, so this provision may be a brilliant ploy to force an agreement, to avoid what everyone fears: draconian, arbitrary cuts.
没有别的，除了关注这本质上是最后期限的意见，因此这个条款可能促成这个协议，以避免公众的担忧：严苛而随意的消减。
Although the discussions may come to naught, or prove a mere ploy in the media firm's ongoing negotiations with Google, the news caused a stir.
尽管讨论可能竹篮打水，或者证实只不过是传媒公司在同谷歌没完没了的谈判中使出的伎俩，此消息还是掀起一阵风云。
Seeing that the 22-year-old already has a strained relationship with his new boss, all this could very well be a clever ploy by Juventus to take full advantage of City's new found riches.
这么看来，这名22岁的球员已经和他的新教练关系相当紧张了，尤文这一切的行为也许更象一出精心安排的表演，以球在刚有新老板曼城身上榨得足够油水。
At first Mr Sarkozy schemed to include only the EU countries with a Mediterranean coast-a ploy to create a French-dominated counterbalance to the apparently German-dominated east.
最初，萨科奇希望欧盟以地中海为界-以此来形成法国主导的地域从而制衡德国主导的东部地区。
At first Mr Sarkozy schemed to include only the EU countries with a Mediterranean coast-a ploy to create a French-dominated counterbalance to the apparently German-dominated east.
最初，萨科奇希望欧盟以地中海为界-以此来形成法国主导的地域从而制衡德国主导的东部地区。
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