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。
Mr Moore, a former act health minister, said it might be questioned whether the ploy was promotional, but highlighted the industry's latest of a series of desperate tactics.
摩尔先生是ACT的前卫生部长,他说,这种做法是否是促销宣传可能会受到质疑,但这种做法突出了烟草业不顾一切的系列最新策略。
Moreover, recent reports allege that the unmanned drones being used in the strikes are in fact based inside Pakistan, which would suggest a certain Pakistani complicity in the ploy.
此外,最近有报道称,美军袭击中所用的无人机事实上部署在巴基斯坦境内,暗示在运用导弹打击策略中,巴基斯坦一定程度上串通美国。
Another then announced there had been no change in the prohibition and claimed the declaration of famine was a Western ploy to gain influence.
然后另一个则宣布,禁止状态一直没有改变,并声称饥荒的声明是西方获得影响的一个策略。
‘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)。
He has so little respect for the average American voter that he thinks this reckless and cynical ploy will work.
他对美国的平民选民如此不敬,竟然认为这种鲁莽轻率、愤世嫉俗的伎俩会产生效果。
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。
They appear to be well-organised, even claiming that letting the rebels into the city was a ploy.
他们看上去组织良好,甚至声称,让反对派部分进入城内是一种计谋。
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。
Politicians accused the firm of a ploy to make cheap labour from eastern Europe more easily available to McDonald's managers across the continent.
政客们指责麦当劳玩弄手段,从而让全欧洲的麦当劳经理们更容易地获得东欧的廉价劳动力。
Truman used the same ploy to pass the much-needed Marshall Plan.
杜鲁门还使用相同手段通过了他急需的马歇尔计划。
It is so far unclear whether Medvedev means any of what he says - or whether his comments are merely a Putin-approved ploy to reassure investors spooked by the current President's west-bashing.
目前还不清楚梅德韦杰夫是否真的有此打算。也可能他的评论仅仅是在普京的认可之下,用来增强投资者信心的障眼法。
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。
France's hope of including the yuan in the SDR, say officials, is an indirect ploy to find ways for the Chinese currency to rise.
官员们称法国希望人民币加入特别提款权只是间接的试图使人民币升值。
In fact, however tainted it may be, R2P is certainly not—to judge by a careful reading of its history—a mere ploy by rich and powerful countries to poke their noses into the affairs of small nations.
实际上,仔细研读R2P的历史就会发现,不管再怎么不好,R2P也不会是富国、强国过问小国内政的伎俩。
In a typical ploy, the nazim of the southern Punjabi city of Multan, Faisal Mukhtar, promised property rights to slum-dwellers in the city.
举一个典型的例子,巴基斯坦南部旁遮普人的木尔坦的警察总长费萨尔•穆卡塔尔曾做出一个承诺,即要为城市的贫民区的居民提供房产权。
In a typical ploy, the nazim of the southern Punjabi city of Multan, Faisal Mukhtar, promised property rights to slum-dwellers in the city.
举一个典型的例子,巴基斯坦南部旁遮普人的木尔坦的警察总长费萨尔•穆卡塔尔曾做出一个承诺,即要为城市的贫民区的居民提供房产权。
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